National Consumers League
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Urged Office of Management & Budget Director Leon Panetta, in a recent letter, not to eliminate the OTC Drugs Advisory Committee. NCL was responding to an executive order that each federal agency eliminate not less than one-third of its advisory committees. A group of congressional leaders recently asked the administration to allow FDA to retain its current roster of committees ("The Tan Sheet" May 31, In Brief).