As so often happens the cure is worse that the disease. On some level verifying the stuff being sold as food and medicine isn’t outright poison is a good thing. Unfortunately everything we do is done by people, fallible, grumpy, avarous people with all the problems that implies.
“On some level verifying the stuff being sold as food and medicine isn’t outright poison is a good thing. “
It is a very good thing. And there was a lot of outright poison being sold as medicine or health enhancers which is why the FDA was formed in the first place.
This is one of the legitimate roles of government, unlike social engineering, wealth distribution etc...