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  1. Michael Harrop

    Blog The FDA and FMT regulation, part 2. (Jul 2024, HumanMicrobes.org) I met with the FDA. Here's what I shared with them, and their response.

    https://www.humanmicrobes.org/blog/the-fda-and-fmt-regulation-part-2
  2. Michael Harrop

    Blog Is a million dollars enough for your poop? Highly effective stool donors will now be paid 1 million dollars for their poop. And offering a half-a-million-dollar reward for anyone who recruits one. (Jul 2024, HumanMicrobes.org)

    https://www.humanmicrobes.org/blog/is-a-million-dollars-enough-for-your-poop Previous discussion: Planning on raising donor payouts to 1 million dollars per stool, and a half-a-million-dollar referral reward (HumanMicrobes.org, Jun 14)
  3. Michael Harrop

    Article This U.S. company is selling products with human fecal matter to Canadians. What does Health Canada think about it? (Jun 2024, Human Microbes)

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/this-u-s-company-is-selling-products-with-human-fecal-matter-to-canadians-what-does-health-canada-think-about-it-1.6937910 Another objective article. Sounds like I might be hearing from Health Canada next.
  4. Michael Harrop

    Article The Poop Broker. Michael Harrop started a booming underground market for human feces. But something smells off about his product. (May 2024, Slate, Human Microbes)

    https://slate.com/life/2024/05/fecal-transplant-fmt-c-diff-microbiome-poop-black-market.html Kind of an odd article. Amusing, seemingly agenda-driven, occasionally deceptive, but not all bad. I'm curious what impact this article will have. Will it be better or worse than the "complete silence"...
  5. Michael Harrop

    FMT FDA warning over 'gut-boosting' pills that contain other people's POOP, amid links to deadly bacterial infections (Apr 2024, DailyMail, Human Microbes)

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240406175051/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wellness-us/article-13238001/FDA-warning-poop-pills-infection.html The article gets some things wrong, such as: Nowhere in the FDA letter does it say "mislead" or "harm" or "false". Things like this are why the Daily Mail...
  6. Michael Harrop

    Article FDA Tries to Close the Lid on Poop Transplant Company — Fecal microbiota transplant business needs a BLA or IND to operate, agency says (Mar 2024, Human Microbes)

    https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/109191 The article includes an objective summary of the FDA letter and my blog posts in response. No opinion/commentary is included.
  7. Michael Harrop

    Blog High-quality stool donors are more rare than one in a million? AI, funding, and potential. (Mar 2024, HumanMicrobes.org)

    https://www.humanmicrobes.org/blog/stool-donors-one-in-a-million-ai-funding-potential A large number of applicants, but the quality is poor. How this impacts you and how you can get involved. I wasn't planning on posting this yet, but the FDA letter has been publicly released and news...
  8. Michael Harrop

    Blog The FDA and FMT regulation. (Mar 2024, HumanMicrobes.org)

    https://www.humanmicrobes.org/blog/fda-fmt-regulation Response to FDA warning letter, proposal for FMT regulation, and some background of this project. I wasn't planning on posting this yet, but the FDA letter has been publicly released and news organizations are already picking it up and...
  9. Michael Harrop

    Blog Half a million stool-donor applicants... (2023, HumanMicrobes.org)

    https://www.humanmicrobes.org/blog/half-a-million-stool-donor-applicants (12 archived comments on /r/fecaltransplant).
  10. Michael Harrop

    Blog Raising prices. Stool donors can now make $500 per donation. Our stool donors can now make $180,000 per year if donating a daily stool. (2022, HumanMicrobes.org)

    https://www.humanmicrobes.org/blog/raising-prices-stool-donors-can-make-500 (41 archived comments on /r/fecaltransplant).
  11. Michael Harrop

    Blog The evidence and rationale supporting our stool donor criteria (2022, HumanMicrobes.org)

    https://www.humanmicrobes.org/blog/the-evidence-and-rationale-supporting-our-donor-criteria
  12. Michael Harrop

    Blog First results from our 1 in 23,000 stool donor (2022, HumanMicrobes.org)

    https://www.humanmicrobes.org/blog/first-results-from-our-1-in-23000-donor Intro: (45 archived comments on /r/fecaltransplant).
  13. Michael Harrop

    Sources Results from 16,000+ new stool donor applicants. (2021, HumanMicrobes.org)

    Firstly, I wanted to delay this announcement due to issues surrounding another stool provider lying to their "customers". But many people have been urging me to make a donor available ASAP. There was a pause in our "hiring recruiters" strategy. But at the same time, we received an even bigger...
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