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Cheesebrough-Ponds was told to submit new data for the drug, Measurin, which it did. The FDA rejected the material, none of which was done by Cass Associates, because it "just didn't supply the necessary data," Dr. Robert J. Robinson, acting head of FDA's Bureau of Medicine, said yesterday...
Officials of FDA would not say how many of the tests Cass Associates has done may have irregularities in them. Gifford D. Hampshire, of FDA's Information and Education Commission, said yesterday that there was no direct relationship between FDA's handling of the Norgesic case and the Measurin case, except that "once certain studies were suspect, we began to look into other drugs of Cass...
...Fountain, (D-N.C.), chairman of the Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the House Committee of Government Operations, which held a hearing on Measurin in May, said last week that during the months when the effectiveness of Measurin was being re-examined, the drug continued to carry advertising claims validated by Cass Associates...
...than $25 million a year. But N.C.R. scientists saw no reason to settle for that one payoff from encapsulation. They, and researchers for other companies, have been busy working out countless other applications. Among the most familiar: "timed release" decongestants such as Contac, and a newly introduced aspirin called Measurin...
...visible pellets of gelatin-or wax-coated drugs in a single dose. The period required for each pellet to dissolve in the digestive system and release its drug varies from almost no time at all to as long as twelve hours, depending on the thickness of the coating. Measurin tablets contain some 6,000 microscopic particles of aspirin, each coated with a semipermeable plastic. Gastric fluids flow through the plastic walls and dissolve the aspirin-which flows out of the capsule at a controlled rate for a continuous eight-hour period...
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