FDA sued over redacting its experts’ job history

FDA sued over redacting its experts’ job history

by Ben Adams |
Apr 29, 2016 4:23am

...The FDA frequently (although they are not obliged to) follows the recommendations of its advisory committees, but Public Citizen has taken exception to the fact that the FDA redacts information from most of the advisory committee members’ CVs posted on its website.
It said that the FDA blacks out information in the CVs about the dates of degrees conferred; the names of professional colleagues and mentors; the amounts of grants received from private companies; and the names of presentations and unpublished articles.
“Redactions of such information deny the public access to information that may bear on the qualifications, backgrounds and potential biases of advisory committee members,” Public Citizen said in a statement.
Dr. Michael Carome, an advisory committee member and director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, told the FDA when he provided his job history that the CV could be made public without any redactions. Yet when the FDA posted it online, the agency redacted it anyway.
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