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| A Center for Public Integrity (CPI) investigation has found that since 1999, the FDA has allowed hundreds of its employees to accept $1.3 million in sponsored travel from nonprofit groups closely tied to pharmaceutical and medical device companies. These nonprofit associations 'draw their members, their boards and even some of their funding from medical and pharmaceutical-related companies' who often have business before the FDA. |
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