Category: Health Outrages

  • Was the FDA looking the other way?

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    Kirsten Knudsen
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    The nation’s largest maker of medical diagnostic tests agreed to a $100 million fine and to stop selling more than 100 of it’s products until it corrects repeated violations of federal rules. Abbot laboratories’ violations date to 1993, according to the Food and Drug Administration, which sought a consent decree to settle the issue because…