ACI Still Musing On ‘Two Islands Study’ For OTC Consumer Antiseptics While Ticking GRASE Data Boxes
Executive Summary
ACI’s James Kim, vice president of science and regulatory affairs, provides an overview of the cleaning product industry’s ongoing efforts to fill GRASE data gaps previously identified by the US FDA, which the trade group expects to be reasserted under newly legislated FDA administrative order procedures.
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