No Walk in the Park: FDA Talks Tough about Executive Accountability
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
If history is any guide, FDA will soon start showing its teeth as a regulatory enforcement agency. That makes this a good time for executives to refresh their memory about the doctrine of strict liability for FD&C Act violations-and to ponder the implications of the Department of Justice's recent use of the so-called Park doctrine against three top execs at Purdue Pharma.