General Medical Company v. United States Food and Drug Administration, and Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary Department of Health & Human Services

McGOWAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

The pace of proceedings at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for whatever reasons, does not rival that of, say, a turn-of-the-century sweatshop in New York City. See Mcllwain v. Hayes, 690 F.2d 1041 (D.C.Cir.1982) (affirming FDA’s decision, under statute passed in 1960 setting forth 2-and-V2-year grace period, to extend deadline for statutory showing until 1984); Corn Products Co. v. FDA, 427 F.2d 511, 513 n. 5 (3d Cir.) (affirming 1968 order, original version of which issued in 1959, that mandated peanut butter should be 90%, not 87%, peanuts by weight),…