Getting Regulation Over Materials Used to Make Flute?

In response to a forum post asking if there should be FDA oversight over the materials used in making flutes, considering that it is in close contact with the mouth area, with a trend of experimenting on newer materials, and having a tendency to cause bad allergic reactions:

I know where you are coming from, but getting these FDA approved seems a bit of a stretch, considering that no one is really using flutes to work with food, nor is it related to medicine/drugs in general.

CPSC seems like a better fit, though all these regulations are only applicable to the US.

That said, considering that the flute purchasing population is vastly smaller compared to regular consumer products, perhaps such regulatory control might be too much to ask for in general.

From some of the anecdotes here (as in the forum at large), it seems that the underlying problem is incomplete/incorrect knowledge on allied fields not directly related to music-making. From material safety, mitigations to such materials, sustainability of certain exotic organic materials, to the care/maintenance, folklore often passes as facts, with emotional reactions often dominating.

I'm not asking for musicians to be expert physicists/chemists/biologists, but to at least know when to put aside the qualities that make them excellent musicians and to bring out the other "hard" side to examine the material (heheh) realities with a more critical eye to better educate themselves in the fields that are periphery to their primary world of music-making.

It is sort of the same reason why we make STEM-field students study humanities as well. We don't expect the same level of excellence in these periphery fields as compared to their primary concerns, but to at least be at a level where they can apply critical thinking to assess and decide on things that can directly affect their primary concerns.