CFSAN/Poison Control Center Supplement AER Contract Recommended By OIG
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The American Association of Poison Control Centers has received numerous dietary supplement adverse event reports that would be useful to FDA, an April 19 HHS Office of Inspector General report on dietary supplement AERs states.
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