Gov. Sonny Perdue’s legislative proposal to grant legal protections to Georgia companies whose products have Food and Drug Administration approval came under heavy fire last week from a Republican lawmaker.

But two attorneys who represent pharmaceutical and medical-device manufacturing companies in products-liability litigation told state senators that Perdue’s legislation is needed to preserve the FDA as the arbiter of what products can be sold to the public.

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