US FDA Should Reload Field Force To Target OTC Adulteration, Former Chief Counsel Hutt Says

Former chief counsel Peter Barton Hutt says the US Food and Drug Administration looks "like fools" with a more than 30-year-old policy that has crippled its field force’s enforcement capabilities in OTC drug manufacturing.

Hutt recounted the 1991 creation of the FDA Office of Criminal Investigations, which removed all prosecutorial authority from the field inspection staff, during a recent speech at the Food and Drug