The FDA Calls Out Drug Researchers for Faking Documents
-->On July 26, 2011, the Food
and Drug Administration announced that Cetero Research, a drug research
company, falsified drug research results in an attempt to manipulate the
results. The research manipulation could complicate the already controversial
drug Paxil since there is already numerous contradictory studies that debate
the drug's efficiency and safety. The FDA's accusation came after an
investigation into the research company, which consisted of two facility
inspections, an internal investigation, and an audit by a third party.
According to Reuters, the results of these investigations led the Food and Drug
Administration to believe that the facility had "significant instances of
misconduct and violation."
The research company Cetero has been hired by numerous drug companies to test medicine and review the results. Cetero's research is supposed to help drug manufacturers find out how effective their product is and if the drugs could be potentially dangerous. After the intense investigations, the FDA warned the drug companies that use Cetero for research they the results may have been falsified and many medications will have to undergo a reevaluation. The FDA officially accused Cetero of "faking documents and manipulating samples," which could void any research done by Cetero. As a result, the drug companies could have used falsified information to receive drug approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
The recent accusations by the FDA make many think of the drug Paxil and the drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline. Recently, Glaxo was accused of hiring people to write articles for doctors claiming Paxil's efficiency and downplaying the risks attached to the medication. Unfortunately, it seems as though Cetero was not performing adequate research but instead giving the drug companies the answers that they wanted. One of most serious accusations made against the research company is that in many cases, the studies that Cetero were said to perform could not have been done at their facility. The Food and Drug Administration said that it is possible that Cetero "fixed" the drug studies to get the desired result or excluded tests that failed to meet a favorable result.
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