We have it on good authority that Ms. Hamburg is not ethically required to abstain from management decisions on the Virginia farm as it is not used for business.  This farm is privately owned for pleasure purposes.  Marti O. 

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Just another brick in the wall.  Although Hamburg and her hubby have had to divest themselves of drug company stocks and even though Ms. Hamburg worked for a medical supply company including the sale of vaccines, they will get to keep the partial ownership of Rockland Farm in Middleburg, Virginia but will abstain from any veterinary medicine or animal health issues and management decisions.  Well, of course they will!

   

May 20, 2009
Margaret Hamburg is new FDA commissioner

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The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, will be the second woman to ever lead FDA. She comes from a background in public health and bioterrorism, and she appears to have the backing of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Despite Hamburg’s lack of experience at the FDA,  the Senate unanimously confirmed her nomination on 18 May. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) endorsed the nomination, and lobbied for a quick confirmation.

This is why everyone is so keen to see her appointed … More