American Cyanamid Co. v. Young

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GINSBURG.

GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

Nature has well equipped the flea to meet the life-or-death challenge of alighting upon a suitable host; it is estimated that if humans possessed a jumping ability comparable to that of Ctenocephalides cams1 a person could leap five city blocks in a single bound. IV Encyclopedia Britannica 177 (15th ed. 1974); see also M. Rothchild & T. Clay, Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos 42 (1952). Analogously, Congress in 1968 equipped the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Administration) with a consolidated statutory framework to…