FDA to Spell Out Rules on Outside Advisers

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Outside experts who advise the government on drugs and other regulated products often have financial ties to industry, creating the potential for conflicts of interest.

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The FDA says that simply eliminating all outside reviewers with potential conflicts would deny the FDA access to advisers with the expertise and experience it seeks.

`We probably couldn't recruit department chairmen. It would hinder us from recruiting all but junior faculty members,'' Gottlieb said.

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``It just doesn't make any sense to me. When you have this problem - conflicts of interest on critical panels - the solution is eliminate the conflict. It's simple and easy to do,'' said Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y.

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Stop the Abramization of our so-called democracy!!!