FDA/advisory committee communications
Executive Summary
FDA denies attorney Larry Pilot's (McKenna & Cuneo) May 1989 citizen petition requesting regulations to provide for public disclosure of all FDA/advisory committee communications ("The Pink Sheet" May 29, 1989, T&G-6). The agency says in its Aug. 16 denial that many of the requested changes "replicate existing regulations and therefore are unnecessary," while others "would, in our view, encumber the agency in the performance of its duties and convert FDA's advisory committee reviews into an adversarial process rather than a scientific forum."