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FDA told advisers drug to be rejected

By DREW ARMSTRONG BLOOMBERG NEWS

Posted: December 27, 2012 at 12:56 a.m.

Three members of an independent advisory panel say they received as much as a day’s notice in May 2010 before U.S. regulators rejected a drug from Inter-Mune Inc., now tied to an insider-trading probe of SAC Capital Advisors LP.

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Business, Pages 19 on 12/27/2012

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