Isn't there some good advice from someone once along the lines of 'trust but VERIFY'?
"Tell me the difference between a 'secret law', and a 'law protecting sensitive information' without using the phrase 'trust in government'.
By law, the EPA, FDA collects propriatory company information including trade secrets about company products. BY LAW these agencies are precluded from disclosing this secret information. This LAW is public information and nothing secret about it.
These agencies use the information collected to verify that such products do what they say they do and regulate these industries in a manner mandated by public law.
They either comply with the laws under which they must operate or they don't. There are trust issues, but it's no different than trust issues we face when we elect people to office to perform a certain job.
When the majority of people cease to trust their gov't the gov't fails and who knows what the outcome might be.....