In order to bring a drug to market, manufacturers have long been required to demonstrate safety and effectiveness in clinical trials; however, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would like to change the Food and Drug Administration’s role to make it easier access experimental medicine. In an article on the FDA considering allowing pharmacies to compound and sell seven unapproved peptides, Undark quoted Professor Jacob Sherkow who called this “a brave new world” in which some substances may “go forward without any rigorous scientific evidence base.”
