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In Comments And In Person, Pharmacist Groups Remind US FDA They'll Provide ACNU Help

28 Nov 2022

Pharmacist groups’ representatives, in meeting with FDA officials, reiterate argument for greater role in access to OTCs through “additional conditions for nonprescription use.” Group not at meeting, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, suggests “intermediate approach to nonprescription status.”

Representatives of US pharmacist and drug store groups had the floor for an hour recently at the Food and Drug Administration to make recommendations they’ve also made in comments submitted to the agency about making more drugs available OTC.

The groups’ representatives, in a meeting with FDA officials on 15 November, reiterated their general argument about the agency’s “additional...