FDA Advisors who Endorsed Contraceptive had Industry Ties: The Food and Drug Administration should disregard a joint advisory committee’s support of a controversial birth control pill because four members of the panel had ties to either the contraceptive maker or the maker of a generic version, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) said Wednesday in a letter to the FDA. In the letter, the watchdog group questioned why members with ties to Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals were allowed, in essence, to endorse the company’s second-best-selling franchise without announcing their ties during the meeting.
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