Apparently the FDA has provided no notice of the inspection results, nor even evidence that they have completed the inspection. Supposedly, they have a legal obligation to inspect the cargo within three business days of filing notice of sampling, and they filed that notice on Friday. By the end of the day today, there was no new information, so I'm not sure what kind of recourse might be available.
In any event, the net effect is that I still don't have my shipment, and I'm paying about $30/day for storage as a side effect of the FDA failing to complete their obligation.
I'm hoping to have some news tomorrow, but I'm in a position of no particular power over the situation.
On the bright side, I met with a company that inquired about my candy for wholesale purchases and the meeting went pretty well. Yesterday Eugene dropped by with some tea samples, so I also brought this company some samples of the tea to try.
In true spy movie style, I met my graphic designer just before 11am at her dentist's office in Fremont, where she passed me some CDs containing the new, post-summer-festival advertisements for the dragon beard candy. After my other little meeting I ran the CDs to two of the newspapers that are running the ads.
In the evening, Jennifer, Amelia and I met to join in at the Cascade Cycle Club's Tour de France event at Magnusson Park. It was a quintessentially American experience... on a nice, sunny evening, come to a lovely park with a thousand other people, and watch TV. We were too lazy to wait in the long line for the food there, so we ran off to the nearby Pagliacci and waited at an alternate venue, apparently for a shorter duration than we would have otherwise, and then came back with a large verde. We watched a few taped-delayed crashes but mostly spent the time chatting... after a brief visit to the overly warm auditorium where we saw another, slightly overlapped tape delay, I got tired early and came home.