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Senate FDA User Fee Bill’s Mandatory Supplement Listing Provision Unites Industry In Opposition

 
• By Hannah Daniel and Malcolm Spicer

Senate HELP Committee didn’t add amendments to user fee bill to protect confidential information and prevent FDA over-regulation in an MPL program, trade groups say. MPL proponents join opponents in saying language in S.4348 isn’t the answer.

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Legislation for mandatory product listing a Senate committee has passed isn’t what some dietary supplement industry stakeholders supported and expected, pushing them to partial agreement with others opposing the proposal but also any requirement to register all supplements with regulators.

A separate provision in the Food and Drug Administration user fee reauthorization bill the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee on 15 June would set a deadline for the FDA to publish a final guidance on new dietary

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Melatonin And Buccal Acyclovir On German Switch Committee Agenda

 
• By David Ridley

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• By David Ridley

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Plenty For Industry To Do As EU Wastewater Directive Faces Legal Challenges

 
• By David Ridley

Engaging with EU member state legislators, stressing the impact of national EPR systems on the accessibility, availability, and affordability of medicines, reformulating products to reduce their financial contribution, and lobbying for expanding the scope of EPR schemes to include other polluting industries are all ways that the European consumer health industry can try and influence the way that the revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive is transposed into national legislation, law firm Mason Hayes & Curran explains.