Authors note: For clarity, the acronyms above describe the Center for Disease Control (CDC, USA), the Federal Drug Administration (FDA, USA) the European Medicines Agency (EMA, EU) and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA,UK)For a regulatory body to functional effectively, irrelevant of the industry it serves, three key components are essential.The assurance that any funding received by the regulatory body does not originate from any of the companies the body is appointed to regulate, andthat the staff that occupy decision making positions within the body have no ties to any of the companies within the industry, and no vested interest in the financial futures of any of...