The former head of the Food and Drug Administration on Sunday said problems at the shuttered Michigan plant that produced baby formula date “back many years” and acknowledged that “more aggressive action” should have been taken to routinely inspect the facility.“These were persistent problems that appear to have been handled poorly, certainly by the company,” Scott Gottlieb said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” “FDA didn’t exert all the oversight that they could have of that facility. There were known problems with that facility going back many years or findings on previous inspections.”“The agency had a 34-page whistleblower report in hand, making pretty serious allegations that there was data falsification and data falsification information withheld from inspectors. So these should have prompted more aggressive action earlier,” he added.
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