Congress Rips FDA on Enforcement

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NEW YORK The House Committee on Government Reform has accused the Food and Drug Administration of being slow to enforce regulations prohibiting false or misleading advertising by pharmaceutical companies.

The committee did so in a Feb. 29 report prepared at the request of Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the ranking Democrat on the committee.

According to the report, enforcement actions by the FDA fell 75 percent in 2003, compared with the “last years of the Clinton administration.”



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