CHPA chimes in on OTC dosing device guidance
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA's guidance on dosage delivery devices for liquid OTCs should adopt some measures from the Consumer Healthcare Products Association's voluntary industry guidelines on the subject, the trade group says. Among the recommendations in a Feb. 2 1letter, FDA should make milliliter the preferred primary unit of liquid measure, as CHPA says its member companies did. This echoes a change suggested by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices in a recent comment to the agency (2"The Tan Sheet" Feb. 1, 2010). CHPA also encourages FDA to limit spoon measures to either "teaspoonful" or "tablespoonful" to reduce confusion, and to tell firms to limit text on a dosing device that "risks obscuring important liquid measure markings." CHPA added dosing device language to its voluntary guidelines in November 2009 (3"The Tan Sheet" Dec. 7, 2009)
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