“On some level verifying the stuff being sold as food and medicine isn’t outright poison is a good thing. “
It is a very good thing. And there was a lot of outright poison being sold as medicine or health enhancers which is why the FDA was formed in the first place.
This is one of the legitimate roles of government, unlike social engineering, wealth distribution etc...
Except of course then they grossly over step, and 15 years from now we’ll find out a bunch of stuff they approved is actually killing people. Like so often happens with the government, conceptually a good idea, in practice often a failure.