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Brown prods FDA on foreign API link with drug shortages

It begins as possibly another congressional browbeating of the FDA, but Sen. Sherrod Brown's missive to FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg takes a turn that is at once insightful and possibly helpful.

Senator urges FDA to step up on foreign APIs

Sen. Sherrod Brown wants the FDA to focus its microscope on pharma outsourcing. For several years, Brown has been raising the flag on potential quality problems posed by outsourced manufacturing. And

Senator demands Merck outsourcing info

Pfizer might have felt singled out a while back when Sen. Sherrod Brown demanded details of its outsourcing program. How much, the senator wanted to know, of the company's outsourcing went to

Senator calls for outsourcing probe at FDA

A new senator is leaping into the pharma fray. Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, is calling on the FDA to evaluate its oversight of outsourcing practices. In a letter to the agency, Brown cites a