FDA Rx-To-OTC Switch Division Director Leonard-Segal Resigns
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Andrea Leonard-Segal’s leadership in FDA’s OTC program helped shift the agency toward considering an expanded switch paradigm, and her successor will enter a challenging regulatory environment, stakeholders say.
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