House Panel Probes FDA’s Criminal Investigations Office

Congressional Republicans want information from the FDA on efforts to improve the agency’s criminal investigations office.

Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a Sept. 20 letter asked the FDA for information about management and oversight at the agency’s Office of Criminal Investigations. The letter, addressed to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, asked the FDA to respond by Oct. 12.

Full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee chairman Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) signed the letter, which includes a request for arrest and conviction rates.

OCI, created in 1991, is the law enforcement arm of FDA, and ...