Mother Jones Releases Timeline Of FDA Action Regarding EC Applications

"Over-the-Counter Insurgency," Mother Jones: The timeline provides links to articles from February 1997 -- when FDA approved the first emergency contraception regimen -- to the present, including FDA's "surprise move" on Monday to reconsider an application from Barr Laboratories to allow nonprescription sales of its emergency contraceptive Plan B to women ages 16 and older, as well as the Plan B-related issues surrounding the confirmation hearings of acting FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach (Friedman, Mother Jones, 8/1).

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