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PHARMACEUTICAL COALITION HITS PINGREE, GOLDEN IN ESCALATING E-LABELING FIGHT: A coalition of drugmakers announced a new ad buy today as the lobbying battle about an obscure FDA spending rider moves to the House floor. The
Alliance to Modernize Prescribing Information, whose members include
AbbVie, AmerisourceBergen, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, Viatris, Pfizer and
Teva, announced a 30-second ad targeting Maine Democrats
Jared Golden, whom the group accuses of blocking the FDA from allowing pharmacists to opt out of the paper pamphlets of prescribing information. Congressional appropriators have included a rider in every spending bill since 2015 barring the FDA from carrying out a proposed rule to allow prescribing information to be distributed digitally rather than on paper. Back in April, a bipartisan group of House members wrote to Appropriations Chair
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