A pro-business group has been attacking the fairness of an upcoming report that is expected to recommend beefing up the FDA approval process for medical devices, according to a report by the New York Times.
The Institute of Medicine is scheduled to release the report on Friday. The FDA commissioned the report after several high profile recalls of devices that failed in thousands of patients, causing numerous injuries.
However, the Washington Legal Foundation, a pro-business group, has filed a petition arguing that the FDA is legally barred from adopting the report's recommendations because the IOM panel making the report failed to include representatives from the device industry and investors.
Read the New York Times report on concerns about an upcoming report on FDA device oversight.
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