@ anugaman
My skepticism comes from reding "skinny bitch" and "omnivores delima". In the past they have approved marketing of products and foods that have had negative side effects that were greater than the problem those problems were trying to solve. I am sorry I cant post specific examples because I can not remember them.
Also, have you noticed the label "Organic" is in almost every food product? It is because FDA owns the word (if put on a food product). Small farmers can not afford to buy it so they cant sell it as organic even though their products are super-organic.
There is one more issue. FDA might approve the new swine flu vaccine under some emergency measure. I am not sure if that means that the vaccine will not have been tested properly, but I am suspicious. (please feel free to post if you have any information on that). When a swine flu vaccine was administered in 1970 they did not know that a "common side effect" was paralysis until thousands of people were suffering from it. Times have changed since then, but this particular news made me more skeptic towards the vaccine.