Thanks to both you and Xena...my thought was someone in a position of authority knew and they acted b/c of money. It might have been to keep their jobs or b/c they felt protected.
I defer to your respective understanding of how the system works. The consequence to the rest of us is of course it just puts a lot more pressure on the FDA to knuckle down as an unintended consequence, which is the LAST THING WE WANT.