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• CALL TO ACTION: Tell FDA to deny drugmakers’ request

  Drugmakers are urging FDA to prohibit compounded GLP-1s. FDA needs to hear from you and your patients NOW! read more →

• APC to FDA: Just say no to Lilly

  This week APC's lawyers sent a formal comment to the FDA about Eli Lilly’s request that tirzepatide be added to the Demonstrably Difficult to Compound list. read more →

• California BOP sends proposed compounding regs to comment period

  The California State Board of Pharmacy decided to move the modified proposed sterile compounding regulations forward to a 30-day comment period. read more →

• Checking in on the post-Chevron fallout

  What’s happened in the world of federal regulation since the end of Chevron? read more →

• Hi, Noom!

  Welcome to our newest Bronze-level Corporate Patron, Noom! read more →

• PFMs can get 2.5% credit card processing

  A new benefit for APC’s Pharmacy/Facility Members: They may be able to cut their credit card processing fees to just 2.5% – 2.8%. read more →

• Phoenix compounders, rise!

  The latest of APC’s new regional meetings — CompoundED UpDATE — is coming to the Phoenix area December 5. read more →

• APC election results: directors and bylaws

  See the results of APC's elections, including four new directors and several changes to our bylaws. read more →

More News

In a joint, bipartisan letter this week, 22 members of Congress urged FDA to “craft patient-centered policies that preserve treatment options” related to compounded hormones. That communication is a result of efforts by APC and its members to educate members of Congress about FDA’s implicit threat to restrict compounded hormones.

The letter asserts that the recommendations of the flawed NASEM report on compounded hormones “would interfere with the practice of medicine and prevent practitioners from treating their patients with therapies that they determine are best for their patients.”

Key points in the letter were that continued access to compounded hormones is key and that the personalized therapies that compounding provides are essential given the limited number of FDA-approved manufactured hormone products on the market.

Signatories on the letter include nine Democrats and 11 Republicans. In addition to lead sponsors Jennifer Wexton (VA) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA), signers included: Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Buddy Carter (GA), Gregory Murphy (NC), Kathy Castor (FL), John Moolenaar (MI), Mark Pocan (WI), Dutch Ruppersberger (MD), Chris Stewart (UT), Beth Van Duyne (TX), Gary Palmer (AL), Markwayne Mullin (OK), Diana Harshbarger (TN), Julia Brownley (CA), Morgan Griffith (VA), Chellie Pingree (ME), Neal Dunn (FL), Ron Kind (WI), Peter DeFazio (OR), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ), and Michael Burgess (TX).