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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has barely two weeks to file its defense in a suit brought against it regarding portions of its guidelines. The FDA’s directives discourage the use of celebrities in the promotion of alcoholic beverages via any medium. This policy forms part of efforts to ensure that minors are protected from being lured into alcoholism. But this, according to the plaintiff, does not augur well for the entertainment industry and robs them of potential streams of income. In the writ issued on November 11, the plaintiff, Mark Darlington Osae said those areas of the FDA’s 2015…