FDA Prepares To Regulate LDTs, One Way Or The Other

US FDA officials have said multiple times that they plan to move to regulate lab-developed tests, with or without Congressional action. And this week, the agency made a formal announcement of those intentions via the Unified Agenda.

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The Food and Drug Administration has remained firm in its view that laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) should fall under its regulatory purview.

During the MedTech Conference in Boston last October Elizabeth Hillebrenner, associate director for scientific and regulatory programs at the FDA’s...

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