FDA Week - 11/30/2018

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FDA Wants Internet Registrars To Act Against Illegal Online Pharmacies

By Beth Wang / November 21, 2018 at 3:37 PM
As pharmacy and other health care stakeholders convened last week to discuss myriad issues surrounding illegal online sales of prescription drugs, one FDA official called for companies that manage and sell internet domain names to ramp up enforcement of their terms of use agreements and stop allowing violative website operators to continue leasing domains under different website names. This, the official said, would help fix the whack-a-mole issue on FDA’s side of enforcement. Additionally, an official with the U.S. Pharmacopeia...


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