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# Don’t Block e-Labeling of Rx Drugs: Bipartisan House Members
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/dont-block-e-labeling-of-rx-drugs-bipartisan-house-members/
- Published: 2021-05-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T16:57:53.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Drugs, #legacy-id-D5149268

Some 20 House members, led by Reps. **Mikie Sherrill** (D-NJ) and **Adam Kinzinger** (R-IL) have sent a letter to the House Appropriation Committee and its Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and FDA, [asking](https://sherrill.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-sherrill-kinzinger-lead-bipartisan-letter-house-appropriations-committee?ref=fdaweb.com) that the committee not include any language in the FY 2022 appropriations bill that would prohibit FDA from allowing prescribing information (PI) to be delivered digitally instead of in paper. “Common sense modernization of the PI requirements will not only avoid a negative impact to patients but may actually improve patient care by allowing labeling updates to be shared more readily than updates made in paper form would permit,” the lawmakers say. “FDA’s PI modernization proposal was prudent in 2014 and should be self-evident in 2021.”

The representatives use their letter to highlight the current potential for sharing medical information among providers and how this change would give prescribers easy access to the most up-to-date product information. They say that nothing in the FDA proposed rule would change the material that a patient receives with a prescription.

Supporters also claim a positive environmental impact for the FDA proposal. They say the agency estimates as many as three million PIs are produced annually, ranging from a few pages to 45\. If an average length is 30 pages, they say, that would mean 90 million pieces of paper. They project that eliminating paper PIs can lead to smaller shipping packages, minimizing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing waste, and saving some 4.8 million trees annually.