Gottlieb Tells Brand Firms To Sell Samples For Generics – Or Face The Consequences

The idea could help quiet growing criticism over system gaming and high drug prices.

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Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb spoke at PhRMA's Innovation Day via video conference from San Francisco. • Source: Derrick Gingery

Former US Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb wants the pharma industry to actively help generic entry by facilitating sales of samples for testing – if not because they particularly want to but because doing so is in their long-term interest.

Gottlieb, who has returned to advising brand pharmaceutical companies since departing the FDA, made the recommendation during Pharmaceutical Research and...

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