Senate appropriators like citizen petition activities

Executive Summary

The Senate Appropriations committee lauds FDA's citizen petition reform activities in the Agriculture spending bill report, and requests the agency provide a report on its citizen petition improvement efforts within 120 days of bill passage. The full committee reported the bill June 22. FDA's report should include "any need for additional funding," the committee states. FDA is examining its petition review process in an attempt to expedite generic drug approvals (1"The Pink Sheet" March 7, 2005, p. 34). In a May report, FDA informed Congress that "many of these citizen petitions might reasonably appear to have been filed in an attempt to delay approval of a generic version of a drug that is not yet subject to generic competition," the committee report states...