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FDA proposes excluding Novo, Lilly weight loss drugs from bulk compounding list in win for the companies
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FDA proposes excluding Novo, Lilly weight loss drugs from bulk compounding list in win for the companies

CNBC·Annika Kim Constantino·about 1 month ago
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The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland, Nov. 4, 2009. Jason Reed | Reuters The ⁠Food and Drug ⁠Administration on Thursday proposed ​excluding the active ingredients in Novo Nordisk ‌ and Eli Lilly 's blockbuster obesity and diabetes medications from the ⁠list ⁠of drugs that outsourcing facilities can use for ​compounding in bulk. If that proposal is finalized, the exclusion would likely limit the mass compounding — or the making of custom, often cheaper alternatives — of those medicines ​unless they appear on the FDA's ⁠drug shortage ⁠list. The agency said it will consider public comments, which can be submitted until late June, before making a final decision. The FDA finds "no clinical need" for outsourcing facilities to compound them from bulk drug substances, the agency said in a release.…

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