US FDA Compounding Oversight: Not As Bad As FDA Makes It Sound?
Executive Summary
HHS Inspector General paints a more positive picture of FDA’s efforts to bring high-volume compounding into better regulatory control than the agency’s own statements might suggest. That could mean the initiative is able to recede a bit from the top-priority status it has had at the agency for almost a decade.
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