Legislation Signed Last Week?!?

It’s pretty sad that it is news that a law has been passed but with this Congress, passing laws does have a kind of “man bites dog” quality these days.  This law, signed by President Obama last week, was in response to 64 deaths from contaminated compounded drugs in 2011.

The bill, called the Drug Quality and Security Act, is intended to address the regulatory gaps between the federal Food and Drug Administration and state pharmacy boards when it comes to large-scale compounders that ship their products in interstate commerce.

It’s not immigration reform, gun control, or even a budget, but it’s something.  And it might be all we get from the 113th Congress.

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.