FDA Execs Prefer Novel Switch Model Sans Intervention

Leaders at FDA’s drug center appear more closely aligned with the OTC industry than with medical professionals’ groups on consumer access to innovative switches. CDER Director Woodcock says the clinical community has resisted switches – and been proven wrong – before.

FDA will prioritize consumers’ direct access to more nonprescription pharmaceuticals through conditions of safe use over requiring intervention by pharmacists, agency officials say.

Drug center officials’ comments at the Consumer Healthcare Products Association’s Regulatory & Scientific Conference May 10-11 show FDA is aligned...

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