Somehow, a line of excess has been crossed between the place where it was not illegal to sell deathly poisonous spoiled olives (though one could get sued), and this. It is the country’s fault for letting “those who meddle with us for ‘our own good’” have the helm. Just because you SAY you are going to be a watchdog, doesn’t mean you aren’t a wolf....
As so often happens the cure is worse that the disease. On some level verifying the stuff being sold as food and medicine isn’t outright poison is a good thing. Unfortunately everything we do is done by people, fallible, grumpy, avarous people with all the problems that implies.