House Health Subcommittee Members Question Dual Rx/OTC Status In FDA’s ACNU Proposal

Republicans Robert Latta and Dan Crenshaw and Democrat Debbie Dingell are members of House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, predominant source of legislation affecting FDA operations.

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Opponents of allowing simultaneous Rx and OTC sales of the same drug at the same dose and for the same indication under a proposed US rule on facilitating OTC switches have allies in two Republicans and one Democrat on Capitol Hill.

Republicans Robert Latta, OH, and Dan Crenshaw, TX, and Democrat Debbie Dingell, MI, are members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee, the predominant source of legislation affecting Food and Drug Administration policies and programs, other than its appropriation

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