Watchdog barks at US FDA's FOIA policies
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
US consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has asked the Food and Drug Administration to drop a policy in which regulators have declared that "minor deletions" from documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) are not formal denials of information requests and, therefore, do not trigger a requester's immediate right to appeal, with the agency instead requiring a second request for reconsideration of any deletions before an appeal can be made.