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Expanded Access Q&A Draft Guidance Includes Informed Consent, IRB Review, and Public Access to Policy

11/15/2022

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft guidance “Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs for Treatment Use Questions and Answers” in November 2022. The regulation governing expanded access went into effect in October 2009, and due to a large volume of questions on how to comply with the regulations, released a guidance documents in June 2016 which was updated in October 2017. After the 2017 guidance, the Agency continued to receive additional questions and changes occurred to the regulation relating to the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 (FDARA) and the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act).