Editors Note: CRE will be making periodic reports on the recent action taken against FDA/TPSAC. CRE has a website dedicated to such actions, titled FACA Under Fire Influential regulators have followed the reports on these sites for years, see archives
Grasping at Straws: “Making wild and often times unbelievable assumptions or using far fetched ideas and possibilities to reach the desired conclusion”. (Urban Dictionary)
ABC News reports:
“Two of the nation’s largest cigarette makers on Friday asked a federal court to stop the Food and Drug Administration from relying on recommendations made by an advisory panel on issues such as menthol cigarettes.”