Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Drug firm Amphastar investigated FDA officials

For more than two months in late 2008, private investigators working for a drug company gathered information on a high-ranking official at the Food and Drug Administration – unearthing details about her husband, two daughters, and in-laws, and re-tracing her steps on a business trip she took to Thailand.

The drug company, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc., paid more than $100,000 to Kroll, the New York-based private investigative firm, to uncover the information about Janet Woodcock (pic), director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, who overees the agency’s new-drug approvals.

Posted via web from Jack's posterous

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