JEFFORDS/KENNEDY COMPROMISE ON DEVICE EFFECTIVENESS LANGUAGE RETAINED IN LATEST FDA REFORM LEGISLATION (S 830); PROVISION IS LAST CONTENTIOUS DEVICE ISSUE
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A July compromise between Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee Chairman James Jeffords (R-Vt.) and committee ranking minority member Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on the Senate FDA reform bill's device effectiveness language has been retained in the manager's amendment released by the Labor Committee on Sept. 3.