yeah, it would have been interesting to have seen some deeper digging.

for instance, did the fda simply not renew because the company didn’t try? was this just the company being lazy and attempting to deflect blame onto a spoooooky faceless gov agency? it the company actually gave a good faith attempt, was there some reason the fda said “nope?”

tangential but related, this highlights why we need better funded journalistic institutions rather than lowest tier trash because it’s “free”, journalists need to be able to afford to dig deeper to tell us who is screwing us over in situations like this.

it’s hard for us (society) to advocate for something if we don’t know what the real story is because our investigators (journalists) are hamstrung by lack of funds.

journalist institutions being underfunded only helps crooked governments and crooked company owners keep us in the dark.