Rep. Syden "needlestick" investigation
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA submits response to a December inquiry by House Energy and COmmerce health subcommittee member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on FDA's regulation of needle-bearing devices ("The Gray Sheet" Dec. 21, I&W-8). A cover letter to the confidential document notes that FDA is helping the American Hospital Association to effect "a strategy for implementing the use of 'safer'needle-bearing devices in its member hospitals".