Beverly Hills 12/5/2009 1:01:24 AM
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FDA Warns Icon Over Antibiotic Studies

Finance World News Update by EQUITIES Magazine

The Food and Drug Administration sent a letter of warning to clinical research company Icon PLC regarding its management of two studies between 2004 and 2006.

 

Icon, which provides outsourced development services to drug and medical device makers, said the FDA warning is based on inspections of client and some clinical sites involved in the research trails of an antibiotic drug treatment for complicated skin infections.

 

Icon added that the unnamed client receive a similar message from the FDA.

 

In morning trading, Icon stocks fell $1.15, or 5.1 percent, to $21.53.

 

 

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