As in any ever-growing bureaucracy, after a while the participants tend to be self-promoting and aggrandizing, accumulating size and momentum like a snowball rolling downhill. The FDA apparently is no exception, judging from their recent whitepaper titled Innovation or Stagnation:
I'm only half-way done reading it myself, but it apparently promotes the rather self-serving viewpoint that More Is Better, and glosses over serious issues like promoting Health and holistic global Quality of Life. Do we need our tax dollars promoting the medical-industrial complex?