Food and Drug Administration News

Tom Stenzel, president and chief executive officer of the Washington, D.C.-based United Fresh Produce Association, made an interesting analogy along those lines at a May 16 workshop of wholesalers and distributors during United Fresh's show.

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. , a developer of oral drug delivery systems, announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration has cleared the Company's Investigational New Drug application for ORMD-0801, its oral insulin capsule.

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A West Jordan man charged with selling a Viagra-like drug as a natural supplement has pleaded guilty to charges in two separate federal indictments.

A logo of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche is pictured at a company's building in Rotkreuz, April 12, 2012.

Whether the food industry likes it or not, when it comes to GMO labeling, the " train appears to have left the station", according to former FDA associate commissioner of foods Dr David Acheson.

FRIDAY, May 10 -- New labeling laws for sunscreen will help American consumers choose the product that provides the best sun protection, experts say.

The recent controversy surrounding the morning-after contraceptive pill called Plan B One-Step has been argued in political, regulatory, and legal circles.

There's a running joke about how bad the food served on planes can be, but taste might not be the biggest concern.

Ranbaxy, an India-based generic drug manufacturer, has pleaded guilty to federal drug safety violations and has agreed to pay $500 million in fines to resolve claims that it sold substandard drugs, The New York Times reports.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Janssen Biotech's Simponi for the treatment of moderately-to-severely active ulcerative colitis in adult patients who have demonstrated corticosteroid dependence or did not respond to other therapies.

An experimental drug that taps the power of the body's immune system to fight cancer is shrinking tumors in patients for whom other treatments have failed, an early study shows.

A fear that carrot and beet juice from a US company could be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum has prompted the US Food and Drug Administration to warn consumers about the potential health risks.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson's drug Simponi for patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory disease affecting the colon.

On May 13, 2013, generic drug manufacturer Ranbaxy USA Inc. , a subsidiary of Indian generic drug manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, pled guilty to seven felony charges as part of a global settlement pursuant to which Ranbaxy will pay a total of $500 million to resolve criminal and civil False Claims Act liability.

Today the US Food and Drug Administration is announcing that it has approved Xofigo to treat men with symptomatic late-stage, castration-resistant prostate cancer that has spread to bones but not to other organs.

A prostate cancer drug developed by a biotech that's relatively new on the Cambridge, Mass.

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FDA has released guidance on best practices for conducting and reporting pharmacoepidemiologic safety studies, specifically studies that use electronic healthcare data including administrative claims data and electronic medical record data.

A team of experts face off for an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate on the motion "The FDA's Caution Is Hazardous To Our Health." When it comes to approving new medical treatments, the Food and Drug Administration is balancing the need for patient safety against the urgency of making important new treatments available as quickly as possible.