A now-little known band called the Classics IV made a big splash in 1968 when their Hallowe’en love song “Spooky” charted at #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and eerie though it may sound, there might be a lesson in there for the FDA half a century later. Sound preposterous? Read on and decide for yourself. House (and Senate) on Haunted Hill As we’ve all seen, the FDA has proposed to pull the substantial equivalence standard for 510(k) filings, but the agency also acknowledged that these 510(k) submissions have ballooned over the past decade or so. Some of that...