I am worried that whatever the standards are that are being applied are not achieving the goals that the public would want to see in terms of kind of rigorous decisions about what is safe and what is not safe.
John Sarbanes: “I am worried that whatever the standards are that are being applied are not achieving the goals that the public would…”
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Sarbanes expresses concern over the safety standards for opioid approvals.
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