On behalf of the food industry and the thousands of supermarket pharmacies operated by our member companies, we at FMI – the Food Industry Association appreciate the opportunity to provide comments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in support of its Medication Guides: Patient Medication Information proposed rule. We thank FDA for recognizing the Citizen Petition, entitled “One Document Solution For All Pharmacy-Based Communications,” jointly submitted in 2008 by FMI and other pharmacy and health care stakeholders, urging the agency to develop a “one-document solution” that combines and simplifies the many documents patients currently receive at the pharmacy for prescription drug products. FMI applauds FDA for responding, in part, by pursuing this rulemaking to facilitate this needed policy change.

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