STAT+: FDA is urged to move faster to list medicines withdrawn over safety concerns
Arguing patient safety is at risk, an advocacy group is urging the Food and Drug Administration to create a new policy for updating an official list of medicines that are withdrawn after being deemed unsafe or ineffective.
In a petition filed with the agency, Public Citizen noted that the FDA has, in most cases over the past two decades, taken “at least several years” to update this list. Meanwhile, patients could be potentially harmed by compounded formulations that physicians and pharmacists are legally permitted to make in the interim.
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