Ned Sharp­less slammed with crit­i­cal let­ter from a key De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tor un­hap­py with e-cig poli­cies

Act­ing FDA Com­mis­sion­er Ned Sharp­less has run in­to trou­ble with a key fig­ure in the Sen­ate — a sig­nal that he’d face some head­winds to win ap­proval to the per­ma­nent job should he be nom­i­nat­ed.

De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Sen­a­tor and mi­nor­i­ty whip Dick Durbin ad­mon­ished Sharp­less on his ap­proach to curb­ing youth use of e-cig­a­rettes, fol­low­ing what he called “one of the most dis­ap­point­ing and alarm­ing meet­ings in my time in pub­lic ser­vice.”

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