FDA's Opioid Regret? Skipping Another Zohydro Meeting, Califf Says

Agency addressed post-marketing concerns raised by advisory committee, Commissioner tells Senate, but should have returned to get panel's blessing.

FDA made a public relations mistake in its handling of the controversial approval of Zogenix Inc.'s hydrocodone Zohydro ER, Commissioner Robert Califf acknowledged during a March 2 Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing.

The agency should have conducted another advisory committee meeting to consider the proposed post-marketing plan for the opioid product without abuse-deterrent features to show that FDA had addressed the

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