Margaret Hamburg, President Obama’s selection to head the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”) is scheduled to face senators today as they consider her nomination.
Hamburg is a physician and a bioterrorism expert who has served as Commissioner for Health of New York City.
The Senate is expected to grill Hamburg in light of some notable FDA failures such as salmonella outbreak in peanut products early this year, tomatoes and peppers in 2008 and spinach in 2006.
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