FDA: Poor Marks for Its Self-Investigation

Abstract
Commissioner's Report October 1975 is a 906-page volume, based on an investigation that is stated to have cost $196,000, in which the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Alexander M. Schmidt, concludes that his agency is innocent of charges of pro-industry bias and maltreatment of employees (N Engl J Med 293:1157–1158, 1975). Now comes Assessment of the Commissioner's Report of October 1975, a 525-page volume, product of a study priced at $140,000, in which six members of a seven-member expert panel say that the Commissioner is in error. The seventh, chairman of the panel, says that the Commissioner . . .

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