E&C Leaders Ask FDA, Five Other Agencies For Briefing On Illicit Fentanyl

As part of their investigation into the dangers of illicit fentanyl, much of which comes from China, a bipartisan group of House Energy & Commerce Committee leaders wrote to FDA Acting Commissioner Ned Sharpless and heads of five other federal agencies to request briefings on the effect the opioid epidemic is having on public health and on their solutions for stopping the flow of illicit fentanyl into the United States. In the letters sent Thursday (June 13) to Sharpless and...