Congressional Democrats urge HHS to reverse Trump’s ban on FDA review of COVID-19 LDTs

Leaders of the House Energy & Commerce Committee are urging HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to plug a hole the Trump administration poked in the regulatory safety net when it revoked FDA’s power to regulate laboratory developed tests for COVID-19.

E&C Chairman Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), and Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), chairs of the health and oversight subcommittees, respectively, requested in a letter that Becerra “take steps to ensure the quality of these tests by reversing the Trump Administration’s misguided policy on LDTs and restoring FDA’s premarket review authority.”...