Fol­low­ing up on Trump's or­ders, the FDA wants to know: which reg­u­la­tions and pa­per­work re­quire­ments need to go?

As part of work un­der two ex­ec­u­tive or­ders, FDA cen­ters on Thurs­day sought com­ments on which ex­ist­ing reg­u­la­tions and re­lat­ed pa­per­work re­quire­ments could be mod­i­fied, re­pealed or re­placed, to re­duce the bur­den on in­dus­try while al­low­ing the reg­u­la­tor to con­tin­ue its pub­lic health mis­sion while ful­fill­ing statu­to­ry oblig­a­tions.

Back in Feb­ru­ary, when Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump first an­nounced his or­der to re­duce reg­u­la­to­ry bur­dens, sev­er­al ex­perts point­ed Fo­cus to some out­dat­ed reg­u­la­tions that could be re­moved with lit­tle im­pact on pub­lic health and the agency’s mis­sion, though there are still ques­tions as to what types of reg­u­la­tions will be tar­get­ed.

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