At issue is an agency practice to redact portions of the resumes submitted by the scientific and medical experts who serve on FDA advisory committees, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by Public Citizen in a federal court in Washington, DC. The consumer group charges the redactions are “unlawful.”
The resumes are publicly available, because they are posted on the FDA web site prior to committee meetings. But Public Citizen charged that the FDA often makes it difficult to learn about possible bias or conflict, because the agency redacts information from most resumes submitted by advisory committee members, according to its lawsuit.
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