23andMe The company will no longer provide health information to people who buy his DNA test kit, it announced last night.The change was "to comply with the directive from the US Food and Drug administration to stop a new access to the consumption in our regulatory review process," the statement said. While current customers will always have access to 23andMe online database noting the health problems associated with their particular DNA, the company will not update this information, and customers who bought service staff genome ( PGS) or after November 22 will only receive information about their ancestry and their raw genetic data without interpretation.
The move comes after a letter of November 22 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned the company, based in California Mountain View "to stop the marketing PGS immediately until it receives the authorization for the FDA to market the device. "the regulator has expressed various concerns, including that patients could change the dosage of medication or even abandon therapy because of the results of tests on 23andMe drug responses.
the action of the FDA has provoked a lively debate on the rights of people to learn their own genetic information and the authority of governments to regulate health-related marketing claims . 23andMe says on its website that its services are "for research, information, and the use of education only. We do not provide medical advice. "But the company focused on the medical uses of the test in the recent marketing, said Cecile Janssens, an epidemiologist at Emory University in Atlanta, who has studied risk predictions of accuracy led by 23andMe and others companies. " It used to be more about what science knows your DNA, "she said." But last year, they are really on another track. It is more about health recommendations now. "
A few days after the letter from the FDA, a complaint was also filed against 23andMe in a US District Court in California alleging that the test results provided by the company were" meaning " .
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