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Latest Steps In FDA Homeopathy Policy Overhaul Prompt Trade Group Questions

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

A revised draft introduces list of risk-based enforcement priorities but doesn't necessarily tighten FDA oversight of homeopathics manufacturing and marketing, say CHPA and AIH.

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The margin for error in the US homeopathic industry could spread rather than shrink with the Food and Drug Administration withdrawing a policy guide that for three decades allowed sales of the products before it finalizes a guidance on compliance with agency regulations.

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