OTC Labeling Rule General Deferral For Convenience-Size Drugs To Be Issued
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA will publish a notice to "delay the compliance date of the current Drug Facts rules with respect to 'convenience-size' drug packages" in an upcoming issue of the Federal Register
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