FDA Shifts On Measuring Daily Limits For Excipients From Potency To Maximum Exposure
Executive Summary
International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas supports the maximum daily exposure limit but suggests FDA retain potency limit field until it finishes adding MDE information to avoid causing confusion.
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