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House Members Object To Senate Adding Supplement MPL Proposal In FDA User Fee Bill

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Members led by SC Republican Jeff Duncan and CA Democrat Tony Cárdenas, in letter to House speaker and minority leader, oppose MPL provision in latest version of S.4348 for re-authorizing FDA drug, biologic and medical device user fee programs.

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Two Democrat and 13 Republican members in the House agree with dietary supplement industry opponents of a Senate proposal to require mandatory product listing, seeing in it a regulatory tool to ban ingredients regardless of their safe history of use.

The members, led by South Carolina Republican Jeff Duncan and California Democrat Tony Cárdenas, in a letter to the House speaker and minority leader stated their opposition and objections to the mandatory product listing (MPL) provision included in the latest version of the Senate bill, S

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