Us Marshals Seize Sanitizer Made By Utah Company
The FDA also warned the public Saturday not to use any Clarcon products because they contain harmful bacteria and are promoted as antimicrobial agents that claim to treat open wounds, damaged skin, and protect against various infectious diseases. No cases have been reported to the FDA.
Clarcon voluntarily recalled the affected products, marketed under [...]
Fda Concludes Mercury In Dental Fillings Not Risky
It was something of an about-face for the Food and Drug Administration, which last year settled a lawsuit with anti-mercury activists by posting on its Web site a precaution saying questions remained about whether the small amount of mercury vapor the fillings can release were enough to harm the developing brains of fetuses or the [...]
Fda: Electronic Cigarettes Contain Toxic Chemicals
The Food and Drug Administration said testing of products from two leading electronic cigarette makers turned up several toxic chemicals, including a key ingredient in antifreeze.
“Little is known about these products, including how much nicotine is there and what other chemicals may be there,” said FDAs Deputy Commissioner Dr. Joshua Sharfstein.
FDA scientists said they tested [...]
Fda Reviewing Precaution Of Sanofis Lantus Insulin
The move comes after a recent, widely publicized study raised the possibility the once-a-day insulin slightly increases risk of cancer.
In a statement, the FDA said patients should not stop taking their insulin without consulting a doctor because of the risk of serious complications, both immediate and long term. Patients with Type 1 diabetes and many [...]
Painkiller Boundaries Urged By Fda After Education Efforts Failed
Outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted yesterday in favor of a ban on Vicodin, Percocet and other prescription medicines that combine acetaminophen with a narcotic. The panel also urged that Johnson & Johnsons Tylenol be given in lower doses than now recommended and the extra- strength version be sold by prescription only. [...]
Smell-loss Drug Escaped Fda Critique Below Homeopathic Label
Zicams homeopathic label allowed it to be marketed for a decade without a review for safety or effectiveness by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, until its recall on June 16. Doctor and consumer reports to the FDA and Zicams maker, Matrixx International Inc., showed the Zicam nasal sprays and swabs may have caused more [...]
Tests Show Several Supplements Have Quality Problems
Set aside the issue of whether vitamin and herbal supplements do any good.
Are they safe? Is whats on the label really whats in the bottle? Tests by researchers and private labs suggest the answer sometimes is no.
One quarter of supplements tested by an independent company over the last decade have had some sort of problem. [...]
Fda Is Reviewing Ranbaxys Corrective Strategy On Drugs to The U.s.
“The FDA is working very closely with the firm to ensure that all the Ranbaxy products currently in the U.S. market are safe and effective,” FDA spokesman Christopher Kelly said in an e-mail yesterday. “The next steps will be dependent on the actions identified” in the plan, he said.
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New Fda Chiefs Stress Science, Better Nourishment Precaution
Expect a “modern food-safety system focused on prevention of contamination,” FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and her deputy, Joshua Sharfstein, wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Even its defenders acknowledge the FDA – the nations chief consumer protection agency – is struggling, given increasing responsibilities overseeing ever-more-complex health industries, but not a budget sufficient to [...]
Fda Announces Recall Of Hydroxycut, Used By Dieters And Body Builders, For Risks
The Food and Drug Administration said the company that makes the dietary supplement has agreed to recall 14 Hydroxycut products. Available in grocery stores and pharmacies, Hydroxycut is advertised as made from natural ingredients. At least 9 million packages were sold last year, the FDA said.
Dr. Linda Katz of the FDAs food and nutrition division [...]