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FDA Warns Pfizer for Failing to Report Drug Side Effects
By Marc J. Bern - Last updated: Friday, June 11, 2010
During the course of the congressional hearing by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform investigating the April 2010 recall of over-the-counter Johnson & Johnson/McNeil pediatric products, documents revealed that McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a unit of J&J, hired contractors to buy back defective Motrin products from store shelves secretly instead of issuing a recall. McNeil [...]
FDA Warns Pfizer for Failing to Report Drug Side Effects
By Marc J. Bern - Last updated: Thursday, June 10, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter to Pfizer, Inc. for failing to report potentially serious adverse side effects of its pharmaceutical drugs. In a May 26 letter to Jeffrey Kindler, Pfizer Chief Executive Officer, the FDA cites a number of instances in which the drug maker failed to report potentially [...]
