FDA ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ — Obama’s Inability to Change an Agency5/14/2010 “Change” was
what drove Barack Obama into office, and his inability to materially change agencies like FDA may be what
drives him from it in 2012. The key and talented people he sent there, like most of their counterparts from prior administrations
of both parties, lacked the raw, brutish determination to avoid being captured by an agency bureaucracy that has seen so
many would-be reformers come and go. Take, for instance, the issue of regulatory enforcement. After 30 years
of a relaxed, industry-enabling and “get government off the backs of the people” Reaganesque policy that infused
the regulatory enforcement culture in Washington, where is FDA? Behind the 8-ball, say many. Apart from raising the rhetoric
and a 50% jump in Warning Letters, Obama’s team at FDA has in 18 months introduced nothing of a true “reforming”
nature for the front-line troops in the field. ... Read full report...
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