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FDA creates task force to better communicate with public

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The FDA announced this week that it has created a transparency task force to investigate ways to better inform the public about its inner workings.

The task force will be chaired by Principal Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein, MD, and will include center directors, the associate commissioner for regulatory affairs, chief scientists and the agency's chief counsel.

“Implementation of the Transparency Task Force’s recommendations should make agency actions and decisions, and their underlying processes and bases, more transparent to the public,” Sharfstein in a press release.

The task force is part of a larger effort by the Obama administration to make all federal government agencies more open to the public, FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, MD, said in the release.

The agency has scheduled a series of public meetings, the first on June 24, where the public will be asked to comment on ways to make the agency more transparent. The deadline for public comment is Aug. 7.