The more articles I read about how the FDA had shut down another 
company for some stupid reason or another no legitimate reason the more afraid I become as I get older wondering what I’ll be allowed to take as a cure or will be forced upon me. The FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) purpose is to regulate the medications and food products in the United States. By testing and regulating these consumable goods, the FDA controls which products enter the marketplace and which pharmaceuticals doctors can prescribe for patients.
When I read articles about how they’ve shut down a company for calling their soda “Cocaine Soda” (tasteless shock marketing, but hardly a crime) it just makes you wonder how anyone can get anything to market these days. Tasteless advertising as long as it clearly states it is really just a soda hardly seems like a place for the FDA to delve into. Protect us from potential harm, not shock advertizing.
While the FDA manages to find time to regulate the names on a soda can and to keep low priced prescription medications from abroad from reaching U.S. citizens it has no problem protecting the profits of the U.S. based pharmaceutical companies instead of the health of the consumer.
