HHS post­pones re­view of over 95% of FDA’s reg­u­la­tions so crit­i­cal re­sources are not di­vert­ed from Covid-19

The De­part­ment of Health and Hu­man Ser­vices said late Thurs­day that it’s post­pon­ing a last-minute rule en­act­ed by for­mer Pres­i­dent Trump’s HHS that would’ve re­quired the FDA to re­view al­most every one of its reg­u­la­tions, which would’ve di­vert­ed nec­es­sary re­sources away from the agency’s on­go­ing work on the pan­dem­ic.

“Based on a count cit­ed in the SUN­SET fi­nal rule, un­der the time­line and de­f­i­n­i­tions pro­vid­ed in the fi­nal rule, over 7,000 sec­tions of the Code of Fed­er­al Reg­u­la­tions pro­mul­gat­ed by the Food and Drug Ad­min­is­tra­tion (FDA) are more than ten years old or would be­come more than ten years old dur­ing the first five years the rule would be in ef­fect, rep­re­sent­ing over 95 per­cent of its cur­rent reg­u­la­tions,” HHS said in an­nounc­ing the post­pone­ment.

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