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Consumer products like soap do not have the kind of approval process that a pharmaceutical does. If these anti-bacterial soaps were to be a prescribed drug, they would have never made it past the trials and thus never been on the market. However, consumer products don't work like that and its up to the government to prove that they are either ineffective or harmful. Thus it can take years or decades after they are on the market before that happens. The problem is not the FDA here, its that the FDA does not have the resources to research every product before it comes to market.