Washington Post:  “[A] handful of Obama appointees have been quietly exercising their power over the trappings of daily life.  They are awakening a vast regulatory apparatus with authority over nearly every U.S. workplace, 15,000 consumer products, and most items found in kitchen pantries and medicine cabinets. . . . The new regulators display a passion for rules and a belief that government must protect the public from dangers lurking at home and on the job — one more way the new White House is reworking the relationship between government and business. . . . In their first few months on the job, FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg and deputy Joshua M. Sharfstein — both with backgrounds running public health agencies — notified General Mills that it was violating the law with its two-year-old marketing campaign that said Cheerios can lower cholesterol by 4 percent.”

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