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Thanks to the Administrative Procedures Act, and per the release from the FDA, the proposal will take some time. Comments are accepted until May 7, 2025. If the government moved with all legal alacrity, the order might get finalized by this time next year, that's if there are no lawsuits, petitions, etc.

I mention this because I can't help but feel the APA takes too long when an agency is doing something proactive for the public good. This should take sixty days, not years, because it's not a removal of a product for safety reasons, that's often done via the FTC.

There is a hole between FDA's authority to create and amend regulations, order the removal of products due to safety, and what should be a more routine streamlining of the FDA cleaning up..

APA - 5 U.S.C. §§ 551–559