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US FDA’s Narrow Path For Imports: Beware The 'SIP'-pery Slope

 
• By Michael McCaughan

Newly proposed pathway to allow states to pursue wholesale importation of drugs from Canada is extremely narrow and restrictive, at least in draft form. It is still a terrible precedent for industry – one that can be easily expanded if it takes effect.

A man is landing down from a sloppy and slippery slope. Stock photograph of a person without face landing down from rocky slippery slope.

It is no coincidence that US Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was in Florida on 18 December to unveil a new proposed rule to permit wholesale importation of drugs from Canada.

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, and his predecessor Sen. Rick Scott, have been instrumental in keeping President Donald Trump personally...

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