FDA Under Fire in Congressional Testimony - March 4, 2008

The FDA is suffering from a crisis in leadership, a lack of congressional oversight and a dangerous reliance on the pharmaceutical industry to bankroll its operations, Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen told a House of Representatives subcommittee on February 27.

“The situation at the FDA has never been worse than now,” Wolfe said. “Congress must act quickly to restore confidence in the FDA.”

On the same day, FDA’s Commissioner, Andrew von Eschenbach, challenged Congress on Friday to quickly give his agency more teeth to regulate food safety. "This is a time to not just be critical about what is not being done, but to collaborate on what must be done," von Eschenbach said in a speech at the National Press Club. "We can't transform this agency ourselves."

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