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Well, they don't let you sell snake oil in their jurisdiction, so that's to be expected.

I wonder why

All you have to do is sell your snake oil as a """supplement""" instead of a medicine and you evade basically all regulation. You can sell actual poison to actual children as a "homeopathic" remedy for teething in babies, as long as you say "all our health promises we make on the front of the bottle aren't backed by the FDA".

Edit: Removed probably dumb and wrong rant about controlled pharmaceuticals

What is the actual poison that's used for a teething remedy?

Belladonna

If the snake oil salesperson claims their product is used to treat or cure any disease, then it's absolutely under FDA jurisdiction.

That's funny, I was just having this same conversation yesterday from my local guy who sells mercury radium soda pop.