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# Drug Firm Investigated FDA Officials
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/drug_firm_investigated_fda_officials_0404100658/
- Published: 2010-04-04T18:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T18:46:01.000Z
- Description: Amphastar Pharmaceuticals paid the investigative firm Kroll more than $100,000 to gather information on FDA drug official Janet Woodcock, including details about her family and a business trip to Thailand, and on a second official, Moheb Nasr, Politico reported.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Miscellaneous, Health News, #vivvo-import

Posted by: [Dr. Mercola ](http://blogs.mercola.com/members/Dr.-Mercola/default.aspx?ref=foodconsumer.org)

April 01 2010

For more than two months in late 2008, private investigators working for a drug company gathered information on Janet Woodcock, a high-ranking official at the Food and Drug Administration -- unearthing details about her husband, two daughters, and in-laws, and re-tracing her steps on a business trip she took to Thailand.

The drug company, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, paid more than $100,000 to Kroll, the New York-based private investigative firm, to uncover the information about Woodcock, the director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, who oversees the agency’s new-drug approvals.

Kroll also investigated a second FDA official on behalf of the drug company -- Moheb Nasr, director of the FDA’s Office of New Drug Quality Assessment, creating a file on him that included his birth date, the price he paid for his home, and details of his education and professional background.

At one point, the investigators hired a freelance reporter to use her status as a journalist to request Woodcock’s emails, phone records, voicemails, calendar and expense reports, among other documents -- without mentioning that she was being paid for her efforts by a private investigative firm.

  
**Sources:**

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[Politico March 30, 2010](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/35212.html?ref=foodconsumer.org)