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Legislative Notes: The Fda's Over-The Counter Drug Review: Expeditious Enforcement By Rulemaking, David Selmer Oct 1977

Legislative Notes: The Fda's Over-The Counter Drug Review: Expeditious Enforcement By Rulemaking, David Selmer

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This article attempts to show that the OTC drug review has distinct advantages over traditional drug regulation. Part I outlines briefly the traditional case-by-case approach to drug licensing and describes FDA enforcement efforts prior to the OTC drug review. Part II sets forth the new rulemaking approach and considers the use of advisory panels. Part III examines several procedural questions associated with the review and concludes that the use of monographs as regulatory standards will afford the FDA an expeditious enforcement mechanism by resolving complex scientific issues at the administrative rather than the judicial level. Judicial review should be available, …


The Prosubstitution Trend In Modern Pharmacy Law, Sidney H. Willig Jan 1972

The Prosubstitution Trend In Modern Pharmacy Law, Sidney H. Willig

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This article explores the legal problems presented to the practicing pharmacist by drug substitution. It delineates the practical and economic realities bearing on substitution and the arguments both in favor of and against limited legal substitution. After describing the current status of the law on the subject and the various resultant liabilities of the pharmacist, the article then suggests means by which substitution might be made an acceptable practice in certain circumstances.