The US Food and Drug Administration’s day-long “listening session” on ideas to reform the advisory committee process bore an uncanny resemblance to the regular open public hearing in those meetings.
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One speaker at the US FDA’s day-long “listening session” on advisory committee reform captured an important truth: the problem is not necessarily how committees are run, it is that there are no alternatives for public input into agency decisions.

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