RT Journal
A1 Steinbrook R
T1 SCience, politics, and over-the-counter emergency contraception
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD January 25
VO 307
IS 4
SP 365
OP 366
DO 10.1001/jama.2011.1957
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1957
AB 
Emphasizing a concern about nonprescription use by the youngest girls of reproductive age, Sebelius wrote to Margaret Hamburg, MD, the FDA commissioner that the studies submitted to the agency “do not include data on all ages for which the drug would be approved and available over the counter” and “do not establish that prescription dispensing requirements should be eliminated for all ages.”1 Although the Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary has the legal authority under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to reverse an FDA decision, Sebelius was apparently the first to ever do so.