The FDA is a paper tiger that does little more than pander to Big Pharma. It has stood silent whilst consumer advertising, drug rep abuses, off-label marketing and various other dangerous abuses have gone on. It has been silent as more and more American kids are "diagnosed" with severe mental illnesses and placed on meds that are known to be harmful (or as to which the effect on growing bodies is not known).
All that stands between you and a poisoning today is the plaintiffs' bar, which will sue on behalf of your estate after you die. Big Pharma still fears them but is busy training the American public that suing for the ill effects of bad medicine is "unpatriotic" and eventually, "tort law reforms" will insulate them from this liability as well.
All this agitation costs money, of course, but in Big Pharma's case, they get to deduct every dollar from their tax liability -- more'n once.
These people are truely evil.