Secrecy about pharmaceutical products

Name(s): 
Lack of public access to information on medicines
Incidence 
In the UK, it is a criminal offence for official involved in the licensing or withdrawal of a drug to disclose any information about heir decision. Although the manufacturers of drugs are required to produce data sheets hat identify likely side-effects, there is no public right of access to these safety studies.
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems