Topic: Food and Drug Administration
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will sign an executive order on Monday to tackle an escalating shortage of life-saving medicines, including cancer treatments, according to a White House official.Hospitals and doctors across the country have been postponing care or using second-best ...
The Food and Drug Administration would have to step up inspections of food plants under legislation the Senate is expected to pass this week.. The bill, which has stalled in that chamber for more than a year, would give the FDA authority ...
The article presents several developments related to health and medicine in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration approved the marketing of STS-7 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System from DexCom Inc., a device that monitors interstitial glucose levels. Ruth S. Day, professor and ...
The head of the Food and Drug Administration's criminal investigation unit is stepping down, months after the latest round of criticism directed at his department by congressional investigators.. Vermillion, who spent 20 years in the Secret Service before joining FDA in 1992, ...
For years ?and Dow have been conducting numerous Food - Pesticide experiments on Food and Humans. They have finally managed to have a Bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives HR875. If you care about the small farmer, if you love ...
Properly undertaking GRAS evaluations for new ingredients and for new uses of existing ingredients is central to food-industry innovation and the marketplace introduction of healthful foods. About 40 years after Congress created the GRAS category, FDA modified its GRAS procedures by establishing ...
Here at the Health Blog, we're keeping our eggs hard-cooked and keeping you up-to-date on the latest in the salmonella-associated egg recall.. Rosa DeLauro, the House's loudest voice on food safety, has just asked the heads of the USDA and the FDA ...
FDA finds low risk of chemical dispersants accumulating in seafoodThe Food and Drug Administration says chemical dispersants used to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico have a low potential for accumulating in seafood, and do not pose a public health ...
Personal Care Products group spent $190,000 lobbying gov't in 2Q on cosmetics regulationsThe Personal Care Products Council, whose members include Dial Corp., Unilever and hundreds of other companies, spent $190,000 in the second quarter to lobby the government on the regulation of ...
This section presents an update on the chemical industry in the U.S. Georgia Gulf reported that it has reached an agreement with lenders to ease leverage and interest coverage ratios until March 2009. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided to halt ...
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