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Hello all, 

    I had not read about this so I thought I would share. Click on the release link to read the details. Reading this from a political website rather than from a celiac list really surprised me. We would all benefit sooo much from this. Forgive me if I just missed, or forgot about  it.  Mike Tetlow 

 

From: POLITICO Pro Health Care Whiteboard [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 3:27 PM
Subject: Watchdog: FDA must act on gluten in drugs

 

3/17/15 3:26 PM EDT

Public Citizen has filed a lawsuit <http://www.citizen.org/documents/Weber-FDA-Complaint.pdf>  against the FDA for failing to act on a 2008 citizen petition aimed at keeping gluten out of medications, or at least labeling it.

The petition was filed in 2008 by Michael Weber, one of 3 million Americans with celiac disease.

The FDA has not taken any action since requesting public comments on whether gluten should be banned from medications in 2011. The comment period closed in March 2012.

“Mr. Weber and millions of others have waited far too long for the FDA to act,” said Katie Einspanier, the Public Citizen attorney handling the case, in a release <http://t.co/uWEzBbnpXu> . “While the FDA drags its feet, millions who suffer from celiac disease will continue to be injured or risk injury every time they take medications that contain wheat gluten. The absence of rules to address wheat gluten in prescription medications has serious and ongoing public health implications.”

— Natalie Villacorta

To view online: 
https://www.politicopro.com/go/?wbid=50126

 

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