Action from the FDA!
March 6, 2008
According to one of the European e-newsletters that gets sent to me, the FDA Commissioner is asking for serious help: more employees, more money, expanded authority from Congress, and more cooperation from industry. This may sound like just what everyone else has been screaming about for years, but the Commissioner is a political appointee. This sounds to me like real courage. Let’s hope he gets the FDA what it needs.
Von Eschenback may very well have real courage and leadership–he was slated to take over the American Cancer Society when President Bush II nominated him to head the FDA.
There have also been so many scandals in recent months and so much publicity, that any FDA chief who didn’t outline a considerable new effort calling for increased supervision, staff, monies and powers would be raked over the coals in Congress–especially in an election year and especially when the other party is in power.
Comment by Fentry — March 8, 2008 @ 10:49 am