US Appropriators Question FDA’s OTC Switch Process Overhaul, Homeopathic Market Oversight

Appropriations Committee’s report with Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA and Related Agencies FY2021 budget bill also reiterated concern about adding acetaminophen dosing information for children to OTC monograph. But its mentions of FDA initiative to expand ingredients available OTC and homeopathic market oversight were firsts.

US House appropriators add Rx-to-OTC drug ingredient switches and oversight of homeopathic drugs to their list of concerns about the Food and Drug Administration’s work in a report accompanying the fiscal year 2021 spending bill for the agency.

The Appropriations Committee’s report provided with its passage of the Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA and Related Agencies FY2021 budget...