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Our investigator documented that you have an employee food preparation area within your drug manufacturing area with no separation between open manufacturing equipment, cooking utensils, and personal-use items. The practices observed at your facility, which was observed open to the outdoors, increase the likelihood of your drug products becoming contaminated.

Eating in the lab is poor form, it goes against all the social norms a manufacturing chemist has imbibed during their training. Such poor discipline usually points to further trouble, and indeed there are deeper problems:

You provided no evidence that you have performed chemical and microbial testing on each batch you manufactured before making a batch disposition decision.

And read the history of the Thalidomide disaster avoided in the USA by a FDA scientist Frances Oldham Kelsey

Aren't most people advocating for the removal of the DEA not the entire FDA?

Lets make it a middle ground, let the fda run its tests, but let people consume the meds they want. FDA charges patients for the benefit of their regulatory overwatch, while those that choose to risk it will find cheaper meds. Everyone happy!