The Power Of The Open Public Hearing

The US FDA took three high profile applications to an external advisory committee meeting during the week of 8 May – and offered a very skeptical read on the approvability of each. All three won positive votes from the committees, in no small part thanks to the messages delivered during the Open Public Hearings.

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From a medical and scientific perspective, pending applications from Perrigo Company PLC/HRA for a potential over the counter oral contraceptive, from ARS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a novel intranasal formulation of epinephrine, and from Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. for a gene therapy to treat DMD have almost nothing in common.

The first is a supplemental NDA to make a 50-year-old product (norgestrel) available without a prescription. The application is based...

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