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After operating on a very short leash during the Bush administration, many FDA staffers thought that a new era of independence from political forces at the White House was upon them when President Barack Obama took office.
They were flat wrong, and they're ticked off.
Politics has peppered Obama loyalists' spats with FDA officials over counting calories in movie theater popcorn and how to regulate birth control pills, an article in The New York Times suggests. For the pharmaceutical industry, the strained relationship between the FDA and the Obama camp has led to some curveballs, and thought leaders are raising concerns about wounding industry profits.

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