Show Us The Birth Certificate? An Authorless US FDA Import Policy
Executive Summary
For two decades it has been almost dogma in the US pharmaceutical industry that no FDA commissioner would sign off on a policy to permit wholesale imports of drugs from Canada. Now that a proposed rule has been issued – it still may be true.
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