Dr. Lester Crawford or his wife sold stock in a number of businesses last year that had interests in the healthcare field. Among his listed stock sales included shares of Embrex, an agricultural biotech company that had included Crawford on its board, according to a report in The New York Times. In an interview with Forbes.com, Crawford had maintained that he had sold all his interests in Embrex before he went to work for the FDA. Other companies in which Crawford sold stock included Wal-Mart, which operates pharmacies, and Kimberly-Clark and Teleflex, which sell medical products.
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