Kennedy, Kessler fight pre-emption
September 16, 2008
3:53 pm
Former FDA commissioners Donald Kennedy and David Kessler have told the Supreme Court that drug company and FDA arguments promoting FDA pre-emption of state failure-to-warn claims in drug safety cases “threaten to undermine, not advance, the underlying goal of our nation’s drug safety laws, which is ‘to protect consumers from dangerous products.'”