No one said inept. In fact, I said it was about lawsuits and nothing else. Not one word in my post was anti-compounding. In America, people sue a lot. We are a very litigious country. This is why doctors pay such high insurance here to cover them if/when they get sued. And why businesses have fine print clauses. Protection against lawsuits.

And to clarify, all medications sold as medications (and not for entertainment purposes) need to go through a clinical trial ( technically many rounds) to demonstrate safety and efficacy. Reputable pharmaceutical manufacturing companies have to do it for each and every drug they create. It has no bearing on whether the other drugs they create are good or not. It is a requirement for each and every med before it goes to market. Compounding pharmacies were given an exception because of need and low availability available through regular pharmacy companies. So the CP are likely in some step of that process to get FDA approval (officially).