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Two critics of the Food and Drug Administration met with President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to discuss running the agency.

Silicon Valley insiders Jim O’Neill and Balaji Srinivasan have both called for major agency overhauls.

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O’Neill’s candidacy for FDA commissioner was divulged last month. O’Neill is a managing director at Mithril Capital Management and a protégé of billionaire Peter Thiel, a key Trump transition adviser who initially proposed O’Neill for the job.

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