“Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway criticized the Food and Drug Administration’s cozy relationship with pharmaceutical companies, saying that the agency has at times allowed its drug approval process to be “hijacked.”
Conway’s comments came during a Wednesday HuffPost Live interview, during which he was asked whether the FDA is too close to the drug companies it regulates.
“Sometimes they are,” he said. “Sometimes their approval process gets hijacked.””* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/05/fda-zohydro_n_4907044.html