Keyword: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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ECHA and FDA Waive Rules in Virus Crisis

24.03.2020 - The coronavirus epidemic is interrupting regulatory activity in both chemicals and pharmaceuticals. In two examples, one from Europe, the other from the US, the European Chemicals...

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FDA Relaxes Rules for Virus Diagnostic Tests

18.03.2020 - Prompted by the recent surge in coronavirus cases, the US Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead for commercial testing and is now allowing companies to proceed with...

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Virus Interrupts FDA Foreign Drug Inspections

12.03.2020 - Due to the increasing threat posed by the coronavirus COVID-19, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided – after “careful consideration” – to postpone inspections of...

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FDA to Review Asbestos in Talc

05.02.2020 - Against the backdrop of a growing number of lawsuits claiming that Johnson and Johnson’s talc-based baby powder causes cancer, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now plans...

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Bayer’s Vitravki Faces Pricing Hurdles

20.01.2020 - Bayer has run into difficulty with healthcare providers in England and Germany over the high cost of the German group’s new “tissue-agnostic” cancer drug Vitrakvi, which was...

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Stephen Hahn Tapped to Head FDA

08.11.2019 - US president Donald Trump has nominated Stephen Hahn as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which will follow Congressional approval. Hahn, currently MD...

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FDA Finds Asbestos in J&J Baby Powder

21.10.2019 - Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has voluntarily recalled 33,000 bottles of its iconic baby powder in the US, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found traces of asbestos in one...

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Advocacy Group Sues FDA Over Dopamine Warnings

10.05.2019 - The US market watchdog Public Citizen has sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), demanding that a district court in Washington, DC, require the agency to add “black box”...