Food and Drug Administration News

A Tennessee pharmacist has admitted distributing a misbranded Chinese-made drug that was given to kidney dialysis patients in Kansas.

Mei Foods has allegedly used expired ingredients in its food making process - a criminal act that will be investigated by local health departments, Food and Drug Administration Director-General Kang Jaw-jou said yesterday.

The US Food and Drug Administration has accepted Nutrition 21's inositol-stabilized arginine silicate as a New Dietary Ingredient .

Lonza says it is raising awareness of the role horseshoe crabs play in QC endotoxin detection tests, and its PyroGene Assay can provide a sustainable alternative.

Cattle feeders in the U.S. are coping with reduced herds and high corn costs in part by increasing their use of growth-inducing drugs designed to bulk up animals, get more pounds of beef from each carcass and circumvent the drought's withering effects on the food cycle.

US authorities are suing a fish processor based in Brooklyn, New York, for manufacturing ready-to-eat fish products under insanitary conditions, with inadequate safety procedures.

ADC Biotechnology says demand for antibody drug conjugates services has skyrocketed as it receives a second financial boost to development in four months.

Dermatologists are saying that new federally mandated labeling laws for sunscreens should help Americans make smarter choices when it comes to products that provide the best sun protection.

A May 22 web seminar from the Food and Drug Administration will give food industry professionals how-to direction on building food defense plans for their facilities.

Back-ups at U.S. ports and U.S.-Mexican border crossings are projected to grow worse as governmental agencies grapple with continued staffing shortages, import volumes increase and looming food safety regulations that likely will increase inspections.

Federal health regulators say an experimental insomnia drug from Merck can help patients fall asleep, but it also carries worrisome side effects, including daytime drowsiness and suicidal thinking.

The world is expanding , but unfortunately it's not the global economy whose waistline needs to go up a size.

The reviewers posted their comments on the FDA's website on Monday, two days ahead of a meeting of outside medical experts which will advise the agency on whether or not it should approve the drug.

We feel as if we're in a bizarre Wonderland that is unfortunately called the political reality in America! The faster we run towards devouring new information about the negative health effects of glyphosate herbicide) and GMOs, the more we're frustrated by the continuing attacks on our body politic by Monsanto and their minions.

"Cadmium rice," as it's dubbed, or rice laced with levels of the metal cadmium that exceed national safety standards, has become the latest food scare in China, sparking a health and P.R. scandal in a nation long used to - and deeply worried about - unsafe food.

Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use.

LDS Canneries "east of the Mississippi" will no longer be canning any food at their facilities beginning June 27th, 2013, as they are no longer able to justify the abhorrent costs to keep in compliance with the ever-changing criteria set forth by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.

Three years after Congress voted to require it, you still won't find calories listed on the menus of most restaurant chains.

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Nearly every woman takes a medication at some point during pregnancy. Yet there's disturbingly little easy-to-understand information about which drugs pose a risk to her baby, and what to do about it.