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14 Feb 2009, 12:18 am
In its (falsely) reassuringly subtitled booklet "The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans," the F.D.A.'s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition establishes acceptable levels of such "defects" for a range of foods products, from allspice to peanut butter. . . . [read post]
17 Apr 2018, 3:30 pm by Bill Marler
That outbreak changed how the U.S.D.A. and F.D.A. monitor food safety today and is part of the reason why the recent recalls of eggs and packaged lettuce can be seen as signs of regulatory success. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 12:42 pm by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.
According to the New York Times, the F.D.A. has received about 300 complaints on the ASR involving patients in the United States who received it since 2008. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 11:50 am
What happened next is not clear, because the F.D.A. redacted portions of the report before releasing it. [read post]
26 Aug 2011, 6:14 pm
The F.D.A. in May ordered producers to study how frequently the devices were failing and to examine the threat to patients. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 7:45 am by Joe Consumer
“I had this illusion, like most people do, that the F.D.A. wouldn’t allow this to happen,” she said. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 10:26 am by Jocelyn
As Avrind Bothra, a pharmaceutical analyst explained to the New York Times about the Punjab factory, which “supplies roughly 70 percent of Ranbaxy’s active pharmaceutical ingredients” to the US market, “’If this plant also comes into F.D.A. issues, it means that the company has not spruced up its quality controls even four years after continued F.D.A. supervision… That raises concerns whether, over all, the company would be able to come out of… [read post]
22 May 2012, 1:11 pm by Tom Lamb
The F.D.A. report offered little specific guidance about long-term use, saying that the decision to continue or stop treatment should be based on an individual assessment of risks, benefits and preferences discussed between a patient and her doctor. [read post]
27 Mar 2010, 3:51 pm by Mark Zamora
The FDA has asked the nation’s pediatricians to stop giving children a diarrhea vaccine until federal scientists can figure out why the product contains apparently harmless but extraneous pieces of a pig virus.The vaccine, called Rotarix, is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline and is intended to prevent severe cases of rotavirus infections, a diarrheal illness that can cause dehydration in infants and young children.Reports are that there is no real risk. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 9:50 pm
According to the The New York Times, an unusual internal meeting is scheduled for Wednesday (4/22/09) at the Food and Drug Administration and may signal how agency officials intend to handle the many controversies swirling around its embattled device division. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 11:56 am
But the very last paragraph of the article said this:The government argues that the F.D.A. competently oversees the drug and device markets, and should not be second-guessed by courts. [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 4:42 pm
If the recipient swears that the drugs are for his or her own personal use, the F.D.A. often releases the detained package. [read post]
9 Mar 2008, 12:25 am
"Dairy farmer choice to use a variety of F.D.A. [read post]
13 Jan 2010, 12:55 am by Dr. Shezad Malik
Since 2007, the F.D.A. has held three advisory panel meetings on these drugs and has changed the labels of the drugs to warn of risks and lower the doses used. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 6:26 am
The F.D.A. recently received a report of a patient on the hCG diet who had a pulmonary embolism, said Christopher Kelly, a spokesman for the agency. [read post]
7 Sep 2014, 4:29 am by Jon Gelman
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2 Sep 2021, 1:30 pm by David Cole
Even though the F.D.A. and independent medical experts have found Covid-19 vaccines to be extremely safe and highly effective, a sizable portion of the eligible population has chosen not to be vaccinated. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 10:14 pm by Jon Gelman
Single- vs multiple-fraction radiotherapy should have been considered in 28 veterans with bone metastasis, but none were offered this option.Conclusions and Relevance  These care gaps reflect important targets for improving the patient and family experience of cancer care.Found onRelated articlesOverlooked Lymph Nodes in Rib Cage Have Prognostic Power for Mesothelioma Patients (workers-compensation.blogspot.com)Committee to Evaluate the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services… [read post]