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Weld strongly criticized the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), deriding the organization as "Dr. [David] Kessler's Neighborhood" and "Feckless, Deficient and Arcane...
...Lately, the FDA has become a wet blanket that threatens to stifle the flame of biotech innovation," Weld said...
Weld said he strongly supported the reforms to the FDA proposed by Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-Kan.), which include a faster drug approval process and greater organizational accountability...
During the question-and-answer period, Weld admitted that the FDA has done better in recent years, but credited the improvement to pressure from fellow critics...
Despite the FDA's tacit green light, drugmakers are not likely to apply for formal approval. Wyeth-Ayerst, the largest U.S. producer of oral contraceptives, has no plans to market such pills or even include emergency contraceptive instructions on its current products. The real problem, rather than any political fallout, says Wyeth spokeswoman Audrey Ashby, is the risk of getting bogged down in costly product-liability suits...