CDRH Staffers To Obama: House Cleaning Urgent At Device Center
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The next FDA commissioner should seek resignations from all current device center managers, a group of CDRH scientists and physicians says in a Jan. 7 1letter to John Podesta, chief of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team
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