FDA withheld critical data on charges

Published December 15, 2006 5:00am ET



The Food and Drug Administration withheld vital information on an anti-pneumonia drug from one of the agency’s own advisory panels, a U.S. senator charged.

“The Foodand Drug Administration can’t be in the business of misleading the public and hiding the truth,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a news release.

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