Pharma Could Lose Some Commercial Info Protections As Part of FDA’s Misinformation Campaign

Commissioner says agency’s speech restrictions to protect confidential commercial information ‘have gone too far,’ and may need to be modified to tackle spread of misinformation. Experts also said US FDA needs to do a better job conveying the uncertainty inherent in its work.

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FDA Commissioner wants to limit some protections for confidential commercial information • Source: Shutterstock

US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf wants to work with Congress to fix some of the laws that restrict FDA from revealing certain confidential commercial information as part of his effort to tackle the proliferation of medical misinformation.

“We have a deficit that is a special one at the FDA, in that often we have information which by...

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