When "High Risk" Is Safe: FDA Stays on GAO List For 2011
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
The Government Accountability Office isn’t ready to give FDA a clean bill of health, keeping the agency on its biennial list of “high risk” government programs for 2011-2012. That’s not flattering to the agency, but it should help FDA in the current climate of tight budgets.
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