GOP To Investigate FDA Over Ruling On Decongestants

December 4, 2023 Politics, Republicans

Republicans on a House oversight panel will investigate the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of a common decongestant ingredient that the agency recently concluded was ineffective, the committee told Axios first.

Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), chairwoman of the House Oversight subcommittee on health care and financial services, in a letter being sent today will request a briefing with FDA commissioner Robert Califf.

The FDA “relied upon outdated and insufficient evidence regarding phenylephrine’s use as a decongestant for so many years, despite numerous appeals by the scientific community,” she wrote.

Read the full article. So NOW they believe the “scientific community”? That’s rich. McClain first appeared here in April 2022 when she told a Trump rally crowd that Trump had captured Osama Bin Laden, who in fact was killed by US troops under Obama in 2011.

House panel investigating FDA’s handling of decongestants https://t.co/moxvgBdNCV

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