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This book offers a compelling and well-researched exploration of America's most powerful consumer safety agency, the FDA. Through hundreds of interviews and real-world stories, Fran Hawthorne delves into the intense pressures—political, industrial, and consumer—that shape the agency’s decision-making. Covering high-stakes topics like designer biology, abortion debates, biotech regulation, prescription drug pricing, and controversies surrounding drugs such as Vioxx and Erbitux, the narrative chronicles how the FDA balances science, bureaucracy, and public welfare. The work reflects how life-and-death decisions are made under contradictory imperatives and increasing scrutiny.

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