Year-End Review of Regulatory Issues

Jun 26th, 2009
David C. Steinberg, Steinberg & Associates

I have been accumulating odds and ends of regulatory issues over the year, and this column-the last of 2002-seems like an ideal place to present them.

United States
There are four areas in US regulations that should be briefly reviewed at this time: child-resisitant packaging, new ways to improve OTC drug actives, and issues in California regarding VOCs and Proposition 65.

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