What did the advisory vote actually do?

Question

Card five · Separate advice from law

What did the advisory vote actually do?

fda.gov FDA advisory meeting record The committee's recorded votes. fda.gov FDA review of the compound Status, identity and study notes. fda.gov FDA ingredient rules The tests for pharmacy ingredients.

No. The committee advised the FDA; it did not rewrite the rule.

Answer 1

Short answer

On December 4, 2024, the FDA advisory committee voted against adding every reviewed form of CJC-1295 to the pharmacy-compounding list.

The committee voted separately on five chemical versions of CJC-1295, with and without DAC; four of those votes were 13 to 0 against, and the fifth was 12 to 1 against.

Why the vote is not the last step

A committee vote is only advice; to change the official list, the FDA must go through a formal rule-writing process that invites public comment.

As of late September 2026, the FDA had published no final rule for CJC-1295.

What to do with a headline

When a headline says a committee “decided,” check whether the FDA later published a final rule in the Federal Register, the government’s daily journal of new rules. For CJC-1295, none had appeared by late September 2026.

Keep this line

The recorded vote matters, but the current rule matters more.