Forest Pharmaceuticals agrees to guilty plea for violating FDA laws

Company sold unapproved and misbranded drugs and obstructed agency investigation

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), working in close coordination with the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ), today announced that Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. entered into a plea agreement in which the company accepted responsibility for criminal actions including distribution of an unapproved new drug, distribution of a misbranded drug, and obstruction of an FDA inspection.