Plan B Comment Review Concerns Prompt Request For Second GAO Report
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
A request by Democratic Sens. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) and Patty Murray (Wash.) for a GAO investigation into FDA's outsourcing of public comment review for Plan B is the latest effort by the lawmakers to encourage a decision on the Rx-to-OTC switch application
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