[IEEE-bhpjobs] FDA to hire 1300 people by September

[Esther L]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aY_mFWRzcCSw&refer=home

April 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it will
fill more than 1,300 positions by the end of September, triple the number
hired by the agency during the past two years.

The agency will add 600 new jobs, including chemists, biologists, and
statisticians. It will also fill more than 700 posts that are open, the FDA
said today in a
statement<http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01829.html>on its
Web
site <http://www.fda.gov/>. About 500 of the positions will be funded by
user fees that are paid to the agency by drugmakers filing applications to
market new products, said FDA spokesman Christopher
Kelly<http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Christopher+Kelly&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1>.


The FDA has undergone intensified Congressional scrutiny because of the
contaminated blood thinner heparin, tainted pet food and the recall of Merck
& Co.'s painkiller Vioxx.


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--- Esther L., estheraauw at gmail.com
"You can not inspect quality into the product; it is already there." -W.
Edwards Deming
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