FDA Broadens Nicotine Therapy Indication Review With Steering Committee Docket
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet & The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA seeks broader guidance than comments and information submitted at a January public hearing on standards testing and evaluations that could expand the variety of products approved as NRTs The docket is open to "recommend specific topics for direct, collective engagement and consideration by the" steering committee.
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