FDA Petitioned To Scrap Stepped-Up Oversight Of Homeopathic Products

Advocates for the use of homeopathic products are urging FDA to back off its plan to step up oversight of the industry, which has largely gone unregulated for the past 80 years. Homeopathy advocates petitioned FDA late last month to: withdraw guidance laying out plans for stepped-up enforcement against certain products marketed without agency approval; convert a 30-year-old compliance policy guide into a regulation; and form an advisory committee made up of health, government, patient and homeopathic industry representatives. Although...