GAO To Launch In­ves­ti­ga­tion Of FDA’s Or­phan Drug Pro­gram

Act­ing on a re­quest from three in­flu­en­tial U.S. sen­a­tors, the gov­ern­ment’s ac­count­abil­i­ty arm con­firmed that it will in­ves­ti­gate po­ten­tial abus­es of the Or­phan Drug Act.

The Gov­ern­ment Ac­count­abil­i­ty Of­fice still must de­ter­mine the full scope of what it will look in­to and the method­ol­o­gy to be used. De­ter­min­ing the scope will take some months, said Chuck Young, GAO’s man­ag­ing di­rec­tor for pub­lic af­fairs.

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