FDA Takes More Heat from Congress - June 12, 2007

This week USA Today had the following headline – FDA called “cozy” with Drugmakers. The story reads that while revising their drug-review policy last year, FDA officials met 112 times with industry representatives but only five times with consumer and patient groups, according to data out Monday from the House Appropriations Committee.

"The FDA has essentially become the government affairs office of the pharmaceutical industry," Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D – N.Y. said in a statement, which called the relationship between the agency and industry "far too cozy and inappropriate."

Our Analysis and Speculation
FDA may conduct harsher inspections to prove that they are “less cozy than perceived.” Be prepared for tougher inspections.

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