HHS fin­ish­es off Trump-era rule that would've erased ba­sic FDA regs with­out fre­quent re­views

HHS on Thurs­day fi­nal­ized its de­ci­sion to with­draw a rule, pro­posed just be­fore for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump left of­fice, that would’ve caused thou­sands of HHS and FDA reg­u­la­tions to au­to­mat­i­cal­ly ex­pire if they weren’t re­viewed with­in two years, and every 10 years there­after.

The de­ci­sion fol­lows the fil­ing of a law­suit last March, in which sev­er­al non­prof­its al­leged that the out­go­ing ad­min­is­tra­tion plant­ed “a tick­ing time­bomb” for HHS, es­sen­tial­ly forc­ing it to de­vote an enor­mous amount of re­sources to the un­prece­dent­ed and in­fea­si­ble task of re­view­ing thou­sands of reg­u­la­tions reg­u­lar­ly.

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