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These events also established the bedrock principles that have governed our system for regulating potentially harmful substances ever since. First, that industry can be trusted to serve as an unbiased arbiter of science. And second, that products are presumed to be safe until proven otherwise. A principle now known in public health circles as the Kehoe Principle.