The Food and Drug Administration has called for comments on existing regulations, as required under President Obama’s executive order “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review” on January 18.
The executive order’s “retrospective review of significant rules” requires government agencies to “develop and submit to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs a preliminary plan … under which the agency will periodically review its existing significant regulations” by May 18. Agencies are then required to publish their plans online in an “open” government Website page, in accordance with the Open Government Directive from December 2009, within two weeks following the May deadline.
