Home Access HIV test kit approval preempts state laws -- FDA advisory opinion.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA HOME ACCESS HIV TEST APPROVAL PREEMPTS STATE LAWS that would ban sale of the OTC home-collection, mail-in test kits in California and New York, the agency maintains in a recent advisory opinion signed by Deputy Commissioner for Policy William Schultz. The advisory opinion was requested by the D.C. law firm of Hogan & Hartson on behalf of Home Access Health ("The Tan Sheet" Aug. 26, 1996, p. 17).