date:May 07, 2013
e FDA has the option to challenge such declarations but has rarely done so.
Our system really puts the onus on us to prove harm, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said at the Reuters Health Summit in New York. It's perhaps a time to look at what the legal framework looks like and what opportunities there are now to ask and answer questions in new ways because of advances in science and technology.
We are an agency with a wonderful history, but many of our laws are rooted in a different histori