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Lawsuit says FDA monitored e-mails

Agency workers filed complaints

By Nedra Pickler

 |  Associated Press  

  January 31, 2012

Current and former Food and Drug Administration officials say in a lawsuit that the agency secretly monitored their private email after they raised concerns that approved medical devices might risk public safety. The doctors and scientists who researched the products approached members of Congress and the incoming Obama administration to express alarm that the devices were approved over their objections.

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