“No End In Sight” For Completing OTC Monographs – CDER Director Woodcock

Janet Woodcock says FDA expected when the process was launched to complete all monographs by the year 2000, but 25 remain in tentative final monograph status, with a rulemaking required to finalize each one. “The rulemaking process … doesn’t work for getting monographs done in a very timely manner,” she says.