The FDA has not approved Fecal Microbiota Transplantation due to safety concerns and the need for further scientific understanding.

“so I think the FDA you know their job is to make sure that people people are safe and so they have to decide is it more safe to kind of give people this cure that has this incredibly High success rate when fatality is on the other side or is it more safe to say hey let's keep learning more about this before we actually introduce it into clinical care and they actually tried to shut the whole thing down they essentially said fmts are not approved by the FDA they're not safe until we learn more about the science”