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WASHINGTON — Scrutiny of drug and consumer- product giant Johnson & Johnson ratcheted up Monday as a congressional chairman demanded the company provide proof of its claim that federal regulators cleared a plan to secretly buy up defective painkillers.
The letter from Rep. Edolphus “Ed” Towns, D-N.Y., comes a week ahead of a hearing to scrutinize J&J’s “phantom recall,” conducted last year, when the company paid an outside contractor to quietly buy more than 88,000 packets of Motrin.
Denver Post staff and wire reports
