Former FDA/OTC Review Director Robert Pinco

Attorney with Washington, D.C. firm Baker & Hostetler reportedly hopes to return to agency as top-level assistant to Commissioner Young. Although he had "no comment" for "The Pink Sheet," Pinco is said to have visited Capitol Hill to garner support for a return to FDA. James Benson has been acting deputy commissioner since June 1988. When Benson took the job, he was believed to be doing it on a temporary basis with the hope that he could return to his previous post as deputy director at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health. That job has not been filled on a permanent basis.