Online shoppers complain that Chinese e-tailers require a follow-up phone call or letter to arrange a bank transfer - or a trip to the store to write a check.
The outbreak has been called one of the worst public health crises in the US in decades and the FDA has been under Congressional pressure to respond, especially after inspecting NECC in 2002 and issuing a warning letter in 2006, but failing to followup with enforcement actions.
The great mass teetering above is the interpreting case law, most of it built up by interventionist regulators whose main concern was to follow the law to the letter.
After this post and some follow-up by my colleague, Colm McCarthy, the question of the release of the letter was widely discussed in Ireland last week.