There is no evidence that G. D....

There is no evidence that G. D. Searle & Co. withheld information from the Food and Drug Administration in winning approval for its Copper-7 intrauterine contraceptive device, an FDA spokeswoman said. FDA officials met with Searle representatives last week to discuss whether company documents recently unsealed in a Minnesota court case challenging the IUD were available to the government agency before it approved the device in 1974. “The gist of our initial review is that we’ve had that information all along,” FDA spokeswoman Susan Cruzan said.