Article: FDA-Barr debacle. (Food and Drug Administration threatens to close Barr Laboratories) (RX Mass Market Retail Pharmacy) (Editorial)

One of the more disheartening news stories of 1991 was the ongoing battle between Barr Laboratories and the Food and Drug Administration. What makes it especially disheartening is the increasing probability that it is a battle Barr will not emerge from. If so, if the FDA closes Barr down as it is threatening to do, it will mean the demise of one of the nation's more important, innovative and successful generic drug houses.

The struggle pits Edwin Cohen, Barr's intelligent, combative, opinionated and principled president, against the regulatory might of an embattled and occasionally vindictive FDA, an FDA whose reputation for efficacy and effectiveness has been ...

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