FDA Will Gain Mandatory Drug Recall Authority – Consultant
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA is not “going to go for long tolerating the fact that they don’t have mandatory recall authority for drugs,” says importation consultant and former agency attorney Ben England.
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