{"id":92974,"date":"2017-09-14T08:13:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=92974"},"modified":"2017-09-14T08:13:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:13:25","slug":"latta-holds-hearing-on-otc-medications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/09\/14\/latta-holds-hearing-on-otc-medications\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta holds hearing on OTC medications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0At\u00a0an Energy &amp; Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing,\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) highlighted his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/latta.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398483\">recently released bipartisan draft legislation<\/a>\u00a0to reform the outdated over-the-counter (OTC) monograph system.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92975\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92975\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Latta-holds-hearing-9-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>U.S. Representative Bob Latta hears testimony on over-the-counter medications.<\/strong> <em>(photo provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The draft, the Over-the-Counter Monograph Safety, Innovation, and Reform Act, would modernize the monograph framework to allow the FDA to make scientific determinations for OTC ingredients through an administrative order process, an approach closer to new drug application procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/news\/press-release\/subhealth-examines-draft-legislation-create-fda-user-fee-program-counter-drugs\/\">health hearing<\/a>\u00a0was entitled,\u00a0\u201cModernizing FDA\u2019s Regulation of Over-the-Counter Drugs,\u201d and witnesses included health care advocates, industry professionals, and Dr. Janet Woodcock, Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver-the-counter medicines are in nearly every household across our nation; yet despite widespread utilization, the system in place to regulate these drugs has been outdated for decades,\u201d Latta said. \u201cIt\u2019s time to move toward a more flexible framework that will spur innovation, expand consumer choice, and better address potential safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the discussion draft before us today will achieve these goals and provide\u00a0predictability to the drug approval process,\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<p>Video of Latta\u2019s statement is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qrF73GErrQY\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0At\u00a0an Energy &amp; Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing,\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) highlighted his\u00a0recently released bipartisan draft legislation\u00a0to reform the outdated over-the-counter (OTC) monograph system. The draft, the Over-the-Counter Monograph Safety, Innovation, and Reform Act, would modernize the monograph framework to allow the FDA to make scientific determinations for OTC ingredients through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 15:18:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}