| | Plan B politics - The Boston Globe |
 | | The GAO report found there were ''unusual" practices in the rejection of the Plan B sales proposal by the FDA, including the refusal of three FDA officials to sign off on the decision -- because they disagreed with it -- and the involvement in the decision-making process of high-level FDA officials. |
 | | Plan B, which uses high-dose birth control pills, has been available since 1999 by prescription. |
 | | Plan B's maker, Barr Pharmaceuticals, then came up with a plan to sell it over the counter to females 16 and older, but in August the FDA's commissioner postponed a decision on the proposal indefinitely, saying the FDA needed to research ways to enforce an age limit. |
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