We all know this is one big job. We also need to bring Congress up to the 21st Century to get the job done too as we don't want the blind leading the blind. Stories in the past showed an FDA not aggressively enough seeking bigger budgets and reflecting back to a post in February, some of the top...
Does this say that the FDA is perhaps not as trusted as we might like the agency to be? On the other hand is it possible to entrust any agency to this level today, and that might be more to the point. There are so many areas that need to come to focus and with all the information we have...
The issues at hand goes back to 2006 with deviations from specifications on drugs, and now it is up to the Congress and the FDA once more. Did the FDA knowingly allow suspected drugs to continue to be sold? Ranbaxy makes a lot of different generic drugs and there’s no mention of the ones...
Congress and the Department of Justice now join the inquiry about the FDA actions investigating the alleged falsification of test records. This is where joint committees could also stand to shed some light here as both Australia and the UK are working with the FDA in reference to drug factories...
By comparison, small bonuses were paid to scientists and doctors. $35 million in bonuses all together were handed out. The head of the criminal investigation division made more than the director of the FBI and the person in charge of revising the bonus system, well, they got the biggest bonus...
The basis of the current affairs of the FDA are not unlike many other stories being told today. We live in a world of transparency, and we are all still getting used to it for that matter, but things don’t fit under the carpet anymore. The old saying of “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it”...