Yeah, Donna Shallala blocked the law that was signed allowing reimportation as described in Billy's news article. Then the House voted to block the FDA from spending money enforcing its anti-import authority. Then I think the Senate passed that as an amendment to an appropriations bill. Does anyone know for sure if it made it through conference and was signed into the Public Laws? I'm talking about the provision that blocks FDA enforcement. Even if it did make it, the law said nothing about what Customs can do ... it merely limited the actions of FDA employees. Employees of Customs and DEA were not affected.

Even if *was* signed into law, almost all of the seizures are made by Customs acting on its own. They don't need an FDA agent there to seize a drug import package. All they were doing is playing politics. It really makes no difference whether or not it made it into law. If it was, all it means is that the letters have to go out on Customs or DEA letterhead, not FDA letterhead.