E&C Democrats Push HHS To Restore FDA’s Premarket Regulation Of LDTs

By Kelly Lienhard / May 11, 2021 at 6:14 PM
Democratic leaders of the House Energy & Commerce Committee on Tuesday pressed HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to restore FDA’s premarket regulation of laboratory-developed tests by scrapping a Trump-era policy that revoked the agency’s jurisdiction. E&C Chair Frank Pallone (NJ), health subcommittee chair Anna Eshoo (CA), and oversight and investigations chair Diana DeGette (CO) point out in their Tuesday (May 11) letter that the Trump HHS move was opposed by then-FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn. Hahn and many career FDA scientists had...


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