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FDA's Commissioner Fish Story Continues

 
• By Derrick Gingery

US FDA met with a group concerned about seafood consumption advice for pregnant and nursing women; could it satisfy Sen. Murkowski and avoid a hold on Scott Gottlieb's nomination?

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Scott Gottlieb's predecessor in the US FDA Commissioner's office already may have set the wheels in motion to deal with a fishy issue that could hold up his confirmation.

Acting Commissioner Stephen Ostroff, who had been deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine before taking over agency operations at the beginning of the Trump Administration, recently met with the National Fisheries Institute to discuss

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