Somehow, this became a question of whether we should or shouldn't have any government regulations whatsoever. The latter is the definition of anarchy. Nobody is claiming we don't need any government regulations at all.. I'm okay with being told to drive at 65 mph on most highways. I would not be so sanguine if Obama told me not to drive above 5 mph, which is equivalent to how he is choking the economy.
I'm okay with the government prohibiting McDonald's from putting rat poison into their hamburgers. Telling them not to exceed a certain calorie count is another story. Read my tagline.
Government is the last entity that should be "regulating" health and safety. People have been indoctrinated into thinking that without regulations bad things will happen. Nothing could be further from the truth.
A truly free market will provide superior health and safety enforcement mechanism -- both in speed and efficiency. Milton Friedman (his son) Ludwig Von Mises, and many others have written at length about such matters.
Governments have suppressed the ability of the market to handle the matter of health and safety, so most people can't even allow themselves to think about how the market would handle it. They just assume "we need government."
Being framed by the left and their allies in the media to confuse people as to the real debate over regulations.