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Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat (1st Edition) by Fran Hawthorne Hardcover, 338 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-471-61091-7 / 0471610917 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-61091-5 / 9780471610915 The forces that shape America's most powerful consumer agency Because of the importance of what it regulates, the FDA comes under tremendous political, industry, and consumer pressure. But the pressure goes far beyond the ordinary lobbying of Washington trade groups. Its mandate-one quarter of the n |