Device Center Detractor Speaks Out At FDA Radiation Meeting
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Managers in FDA's device center "ignored and suppressed" significant public health concerns about imaging systems in their past reviews of some such devices, according to a scientist who spoke at a recent FDA meeting
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