For medical use, human stool should be considered a tissue, not a drug, argue Mark B. Smith, Colleen Kelly and Eric J. Alm.
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Smith, M., Kelly, C. & Alm, E. Policy: How to regulate faecal transplants. Nature 506, 290–291 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/506290a
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