I'll bet Weil wouldn't have gotten in trouble if he'd just stuck to advertising his herbal formula as a general "immune booster". Under current law, marketers can promote their unproven products if their ad copy is vague enough. From the FDA's standpoint, where Andy stepped over the line was in claiming that his formula was good for warding off H1N1 flu. It's surprising that someone with such a sales empire and having so much experience in marketing supplements would make this kind of mistake. "Is it my imagination, or has the FDA grown a pair recently?" They may be making some effort to limit healthfraud connected with current worries about the flu, and there was an indication recently of stepped-up efforts to combat false claims about cancer remedies. I'd still like to see evidence that they're following up warning letters with measures that have teeth. Traditionally it's been far too easy for promoters of bogus cures to escape prosecution, shut down their operations temporarily and reopen them under new names.

I heard a discussion of this on NPR last night, and if I recall correctly it's gonna make all the antibiotics Rx only. Right now you can walk in to the store and buy antibiotics for your herd without much hassle; if this goes through, you'll need the vet to okay it. Now, even though you won't be able to administer the drugs for the purpose of increasing weight gain, you can still give them for the purposes of 'preventing disease'--which seems to be a pretty big loophole. The success of this program might well depend on how strict or lax the local vets were about handing out prescriptions.

The FDA is not canceled, trump wants to deregulate drug safety regulations, " from 900 pages to 100"... There are budget cuts being proposed across the board for all government agencies but as of yet no departments have been eliminated. https://www.wired.com/2017/03/trumps-fda-pick-friends-big-pharma-doesnt/

I just got this information from an email from my vet. Please pass this along to all pet owners.