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Animal Antibiotic Use Continues Upwards, FDA Keeps Blinders on

David Wallinga, M.D. | Posted 04.14.2013 | Home
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Fda Regulations, Fda, Antibiotics in Food, Antibiotics in Meat, Animal Antibiotic Use, Home News
David Wallinga, M.D.

The FDA's report on antibiotics used in food animals asks pharmaceutical companies to voluntarily to reduce the sales of their antibiotic products sold for use in animal feed. If the success of FDA's approach strikes you as unlikely, you're not alone.

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3 Steps the FDA Can Take in 2013 to Show It Is Protecting Americans From Harm

Peter Lehner | Posted 03.19.2013 | Green
Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Bpa, Antibiotic Resistance, Pesticides, Food Contamination, Triclosan, Antibacterial Soap, Antibiotics, Food Safety, Antibacterial, Salmonella, Fda, Hormone-Disrupting-Chemicals, Ecoli, Fda Approval, Fda Regulations, FDA BPA, Green News
Peter Lehner

For as welcome as the new food safety programs are, the FDA is still plagued with problems. It moves at a glacial pace in the face of pressing health hazards, like its three-decade-long refusal to act on its own findings that the use of antibiotics in livestock feed threatens human health.

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FDA Chief Urges Action On Drug Compounding Safety

Reuters | Posted 02.19.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Video, Fda Regulations, Compounding Pharmacy Safety, Reuters, Meningitis Outbreak, Fda Compounding Pharmacy, Fda Drug Safety, Fda Drug Regulations, Fda, Fda Meningitis Outbreak, Healthy Living News

By David Morgan WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The top U.S. drug regulator on Wednesday urged state officials to help c...

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Behind the Meningitis Outbreak: Pharmacies Fought FDA Regulation

Donald Cohen | Posted 12.19.2012 | Politics
Read More: Regulation, Meningitis, Chamber of Commerce, Lobbyists, Necc, New England Compounding Center, Fda Regulations, Compounding Pharmacies, Politics News
Donald Cohen

Fifteen people have died in an outbreak of meningitis contracted from contaminated spinal steroid injections. The numbers are growing, and so is awareness of a little-known corner of the pharmaceutical industry, compounding pharmacies, which is responsible for the tragedy.

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Meningitis Scare: What Are the Legalities of Pharmacy Compounding?

Arlene Weintraub | Posted 12.09.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fda Regulations, Meningitis, Fda, Compounding Pharmacies, Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act, Meningitis Outbreak, Compounding Pharmacies FDA, Meningitis Scare, Health News, FDA Compounding Pharmacies, Healthy Living News
Arlene Weintraub

It will be interesting to see if the current meningitis crisis prompts the federal government to take a fresh look at the rules and regulations governing compounding pharmacies.

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Buyer Beware

Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Healthy Living Health News, Dangers of Bpa, BOA Baby Bottles, FDA and BPA Baby Bottles, BPA and Health, BPA Health Effects, Bpa Health, Personal Health, Fda, Fda Regulations, Bpa, Cancer, Bpa Plastic, Wellness, Healthy Living News
Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D.

In July 2012, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally banned the use of BPA in baby bottles and children's drinking cups. Good news, to be sure, but why must we wait to have this likely carcinogen eliminated from our dietary supply entirely?

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Cigar Lovers To FDA: A Cigar Isn't Just A Cigar

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 06.22.2012 | Small Business
Read More: Small Business News and Trends, Tobacco Stores, Fda, Fda Regulations, Cigars, Tobacco, Health, Small Business News

RICHMOND, Va. -- Sometimes a cigar isn't just a cigar. From large hand-rolled cigars and smaller machine-made cigars to little cigars that are simila...

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Mobile App for Lifesaving Technology? Or Regulated Industry?

Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 07.18.2012 | Technology
Read More: Innovation, House of Representatives, Hipaa, Gov 2.0, M-Health. Mobile Health Apps, FDA Regulation, Fda Regulations, Congress, Alan W. Silberberg, Smart Phones, Device Regulation, E-Health, Technology News
Alan W. Silberberg

Is an app a device? Is it a life-saving tool or is it the new shiny toy on your smartphone about which you know nothing about the reliability or specificity of how it works?

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People Are Dying of Drug Overdoses, Despite Lifesaving Medications

Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. | Posted 07.11.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Fda Regulations, Opiates, Fda, Prescription Drugs, Public Health, Painkillers, Naloxone, Drug Abuse, War on Drugs, Painkiller Abuse, Addiction and Recovery, Prescription Drug Abuse, Overdose, Healthy Living News
Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D.

We have waged a war against drugs instead of formulating a science-based response to a public health epidemic for which a life-saving medication is available.

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Grossed Out by Pink Slime? Well, Don't Just Sit There

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 06.13.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Cochineal, Pink Slime, Food Day, Caramel Coloring, Personal Health, Food Regulations, Food System, Food Day 2011, Food Day 2012, Fda Regulations, Food Policies, Healthy Living News
Michael F. Jacobson

Signs that our food system is broken are all around us. So are the signs that Americans are craving change and want to do something about it.

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The FDA Allows What In Our Food?

Posted 03.21.2012 | Weird News
Read More: Video, Fda Regulations, Bugs in Food, Food Contamination, Gross, FDA Allows Bugs in Food, Maggots in Food, Eating Bugs, Bugs Allowed in Food, Fda, Peanut Butter, Weird News News

Your food has to reach "Food Defect Action Levels" that have been created by the FDA before the regulator will take action against products with forei...

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A Novel Way to Create American Jobs: Brought to You By the Medical Device Industry and Congress

Rosemary Gibson | Posted 04.03.2012 | Politics
Read More: The Treatment Trap, Consumer Union Safe Patient Project, Medical Devices, Fda Regulations, Mdufa, Medical Device Testing, Fda Approval, FDA Recalls, Fda Testing, Fda Congress, Politics News
Rosemary Gibson

At stake is whether medical devices that are put in your body, cardiac stents, heart valves, knee and hip implants, among others, will be subject to safety tests in humans before they are approved by the FDA.

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The FDA Fails the Public on Antibiotics Once Again

Andrew Gunther | Posted 03.10.2012 | Home
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Fda Regulations, Animal Antibiotics, Fda Animals Antibiotics, Fda Antibiotics, Fda Lobbying, Antibiotics Animals, Cephalosporin Animals, Big Agriculture, Cephalosporin Fda, Home News
Andrew Gunther

While the FDA's decision to curb the use of cephalosporins in food animal production has been hailed as positive step, forgive me if you don't see me jumping for joy.

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FDA Limits Some Antibiotics In Livestock

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 03.05.2012 | Green
Read More: Farming, Video, Fda Regulations, Factory Farming, Livestock Antibiotics, Agriculture, Livestock Treatment, Fda, FDA Antibiotics Livestock, Animals, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ordered farmers to limit the use of a type of antibiotics they give livestock because...

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Teens and Flavored Cigars. Seriously?

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 01.18.2012 | Parents
Read More: Nicotine, Fda Regulations, Safety, Teens, Cigarette, Parenting, FDA Warning, Cigarette Smoking, Parents News
Barbara Greenberg

Cigar use among teens increased by more than 11% from 2000-2010. And the cigars are not the ones that your uncles smoked. The cigars of choice are -- get this -- candy-flavored.

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1,200 Retailers Cited For Violating Tobacco Rules

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 01.09.2012 | Business
Read More: Tobacco Regulations, Center for Tobacco Products, Tobacco Sales, Video, Fda Regulations, Lawrence Deyton, Food and Drug Administration, Tobacco Products, Business News

RICHMOND, Va. — The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it has issued about 1,200 warning letters to retailers in 15 states for violating...

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Eighty Percent of Vitamin C Is Imported from China. Is it Safe?

Dara O'Rourke | Posted 08.31.2011 | Green
Read More: Globalization Food, Global Food Crisis, Global Food Prices, Fda, Food Globalization, Food, China Food Imports, Fda Regulations, Food Imports, Global Food Regulations, Globalization, Green News
Dara O'Rourke

The dangers of an increasingly globalized supply chain for food and drugs are already visible. With imports and scandals rising, and government funding decreasing, the FDA will have to focus their limited resources to protect public health.

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Data Exclusivity: Getting the Balance Right

John Horton | Posted 07.19.2011 | Politics
Read More: Biosimilars, Biologics, Fda Regulations, Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals, Politics News
John Horton

What's the right length for data exclusivity? The current law says innovator drug makers have twelve years; in the European Union, it's ten; and the 2012 budget proposes seven. Who's right?

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The Public Health Crisis No One Is Talking About

Sasha Cagen | Posted 06.19.2011 | Home
Read More: Celiac Disease, Gluten-Free, Fda Regulations, Celiac, Health Care, Health, Gluten, Home News
Sasha Cagen

Imagine there is a food additive that slowly poisons you and can even kill you. Now imagine you have no way of knowing whether it is in your foods. Three million American celiacs and I find myself in this situation.

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FDA: Agency Must Review Tobacco Products

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Personal Health, Fda Regulations, Tobacco Industry, Fda, Tobacco, FDA Policy, FDA Tobacco Regulation, Tobacco Regulation, Home News

RICHMOND, Va. — The Food and Drug Administration says it must review tobacco products that were introduced or changed over the last four years i...

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FDA Would Boost Food Inspections Under New Senate Bill

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Personal Health, FDA Food Inspection, Fda, FDA Oversight, FDA Approvals, FDA Recalls, FDA Warning, FDA Policy, Fda Regulations, New FDA Regulations, Senate Health Bill, Four Loko Banned, Home News

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration would have to step up inspections of food plants under legislation the Senate is expected to pass ...

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Should the FDA Have Stricter Regulations Around Homeopathic Products?

Christine Escobar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: FDA Recall, Fda Approval, Fda Recall List, Fda Drug Recalls, Fda Regulations, Baby Product Recalls, Home News
Christine Escobar

Homeopathic products are not regulated by the FDA in quite the same way as other over-the-counter (OTC) drugs are.

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Rat Hairs? Mold? What The FDA Say Is OK To Eat (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Fda Approval List, Fda Regulations, FDA Recalls, Approved Fda List, Fda Approval, The FDA, Fda, Fda Approved, Food and Drug Administration, Slidepollajax, Home News

Rat hairs in your peanut butter sandwich and insect fragments in your pasta sauce? Yuck. Yet according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) these...

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FDA Approves Botox For Migraine Headaches

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Migraine Headaches, Migraines, Fda Regulations, FDA Approvals, Drugs Fda, Health, Migraines Treatment, Fda Guidance, Fda, Fda Approved, Fda Guidelines, Healthy Living News

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials approved the wrinkle-smoothing injection Botox for migraine headaches on Friday, giving drugmaker Allergan...

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FDA Won't Restrict Cough Syrup

healthland.time.com | By Meredith Melnick | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Cough Syrup High, Fda Regulations, Teenage Drug Abuse, FDA Recall, Health, Causes of Drug Abuse, Drug Abuse, Cough Syrup, Healthy Living News

The FDA considered imposing an age limit on purchasing cough syrup, due to its abuse among teenagers. But last night, a panel assembled by the FDA vot...

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