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Senate HELP panel reauthorizes OTC user-fee program and backs SMART OTC framework
Summary
Committee adopted reauthorization of the Over-the-Counter Monograph User Fee Amendments (MUFA) and manager's substitute, and sponsors described the SMART OTC framework to speed safe switches of prescription drugs to over-the-counter status.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions voted to adopt a manager's amendment to reauthorize the Over-the-Counter Monograph User Fee Amendments (MUFA), a user-fee program that funds Food and Drug Administration review of nonprescription drugs.
Senator Jim Banks, sponsor of S.2292, said MUFA reauthorization is a "common sense reform" that can make FDA review of…
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