US Lawmaker Demands Briefing From HHS Chief On LDT Loophole

Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. calls HHS secretary Alex Azar on the carpet for hobbling the FDA’s oversight of laboratory developed tests.

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Powerful US House Energy and Commerce Committee chair Frank Pallone Jr. wants answers from Department of Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar on why he is trying to strip away the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of laboratory developed tests (LDTs), and he wants those answers now.

The congressman, a Democrat from New Jersey, said on 20 August that he was alarmed by the decision by...

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