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11 Apr 2014, 11:01 pm
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said today that it is allowing ionizing radiation on crustaceans like crab, shrimp, lobster, and crayfish to control foodborne pathogens and extend shelf life. [read post]
28 Dec 2019, 9:05 pm
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. [read post]
1 Nov 2011, 6:53 am
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that Wegmans supermarkets are recalling Turkish pine nuts and food containing pine nuts (Caprese salad and asparagus with pine nuts) because of possible contamination with Salmonella Enteritidis. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 4:35 pm
As we have discussed in recent postings (here and here), issues regarding the certification of food ingredients as generally recognized as safe (“GRAS”) by the Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) have been a hot topic in industry circles. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 2:59 am
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is about to publish a new produce safety rule and will extend the comment period on it to 120 days, according to Michael Taylor, FDA's deputy commissioner for food.The Hagstrom Report, a subscriber news service, said Taylor made the announcement while speaking to the national Organic Trade Association, at a two-day meeting that ended Thursday in Washington, DC.The new produce safety rule is one of four mandates Congress gave FDA in… [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 6:16 pm
Public Citizen sent a petition to the Food and Drug Administration saying the risks of Victoza far outweigh its benefits as a diabetes drug, a crowded field that includes nearly a dozen similar medications.The group notes that FDA approved the drug in 2010 against the recommendation of three staff scientists. [read post]
6 Oct 2008, 2:44 pm
Food and Drug Administration. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 8:51 am
The Food and Drug Administration recommends that those who experience skin reactions should halt usage of the drug. [read post]
21 Aug 2008, 5:03 pm
The authors would like to report that a widely used diabetes drug has been linked to severe pancreatic problems in dozens of patients, according the Food and Drug Administration. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 6:55 am
At issue in the two related cases is whether the Eighth Circuit abrogated the Hatch-Waxman Amendments by allowing state tort liability for failure to warn in direct contravention of the Act’s requirement that a generic drug’s labeling be the same as the labeling approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the listed (or branded) drug. [read post]
21 Dec 2014, 10:03 pm
Food Safety News wrote a lot about antibiotic resistance this year — particularly the debate surrounding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals, introduced in December 2013, and conversations sparked by the 16-month outbreak of multi-drug-resistant Salmonella Heidelberg linked to Foster Farms-brand chicken that ended in July 2014. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 8:38 am
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a report about the sale of Generic Tamiflu over the internet. [read post]
7 Aug 2009, 12:05 pm
Now, the Food and Drug Administration has announced it is moving towards stronger, more aggressive and much faster responses to enforcing the laws and regulations that govern the safety of drugs, medical devices and much of the U.S. food supply, New FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg has been in office only 8 weeks but has made positive moves to protect citizens. [read post]
Syfovre Safety Issues Need More Attention Before This Relatively New Eye Drug Gets Widely Prescribed
27 Dec 2023, 1:15 pm
It begins as follows: Syfovre (pegcetacoplan) was recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a treatment to slow the rate of geographic atrophy (GA) growth, although not as a treatment for visual acuity. [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 8:46 am
The Food and Drug Administration has announced the drug Meridia (also known as sibutramine) is being taken off the market by its distributor after clinical trials demonstrated there was an increased risk for strokes and heart attacks among people who used it. [read post]
14 Jul 2023, 2:20 pm
The Food and Drug Administration reported that the oysters were harvested in Nova Scotia. [read post]
24 Jul 2011, 7:38 pm
In the wake of the growing number of dangerous drug lawsuits claiming that use of Fosamax and other bisphosphonate drugs is linked to jawbone death and atypical femur fractures in osteoporosis patients, the Food and Drug Administration has announced that it will set up an advisory committee to explore the benefits and risks of using this medications. [read post]
29 Sep 2024, 9:01 pm
The Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction as part of its enforcement activities. [read post]
5 Aug 2018, 9:03 pm
The Food and Drug Administration reported the drug designation is accurate for the products “because they are intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or other animals and/or to affect the structure or function of the body of man or other animals. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 5:49 pm
Bahe Cook Cantley & Jones Meridia lawyer Larry Jones says, "The federal Food & Drug Administration has notified healthcare professionals and patients that it is reviewing preliminary data from a recent study suggesting that patients using sibutramine have a higher number of cardiovascular events (heart attack, stroke, resuscitated cardiac arrest, or death) than patients using a placebo (sugar pill). [read post]
