FDA

Published: November 26, 2007 A few years ago Americans walked into the grocery store and plucked items from the shelves with a confidence that the world could only envy. Now, according to a survey for the Food Marketing Institute, only 66 percent ...

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is looking into reports that the anti-smoking drug Chantix may trigger mood swings and thoughts of suicide in patients taking it. Information provided to the agency by ...

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 by: David Gutierrez (NewsTarget) The former deputy director of the FDA's Division of Drug Risk Evaluation has said that she was verbally reprimanded by her superiors when she recommended that diabetes drug Avandia be ...

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 by: Jon Barron (NewsTarget) Let's be honest for a moment. There's no question that over the years I've tweaked the FDA, Canadian, and European regulators for some of the outrageously absurd positions they've taken when it ...

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By WALT BOGDANICH Published: November 2, 2007 The Food and Drug Administration cannot guarantee the safety of the nation’s drug supply because it inspects few foreign drug manufacturers and the inspections it does carry out abroad are less ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2007-11-02 13:27 - 0 comments

10/15/2007 - The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) last week showed potential false marketers of dietary supplements that it means business when it requested US Marshals to seize approximately $71,000 of goods from Fullife Natural Options ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 15, 2007 — The FDA today issued a draft guidance on complying with the adverse event reporting (AER) and recordkeeping requirements of dietary supplement manufacturers, packers and distributors by the Dietary Supplement and ...

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Friday, October 19, 2007 by: Mike Adams The FDA's Ministry of Language today announced that the English language has been suspended. From now on, all words will only mean what the FDA declares they should mean. The word, ...

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 by: David Gutierrez (NewsTarget) A study by the House Energy and Commerce Committee has strongly criticized an FDA plan to close seven of its 13 food and product testing laboratories in order to centralize operations and ...

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 by: Herb Newborg (NewsTarget) A new report issued on September 28th, 2007 by Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General found that federal health officials don't even know how many clinical trials ...

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 by: Teri Lee Gruss (NewsTarget) FDA announces public comment date for Behind the Counter (BTC) sales of prescription medications On October 3, 2007 the FDA posted FDA Docket number 2007N-0356 announcing that it is open to ...

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Thursday, October 18, 2007 by: Mike Adams (NewsTarget) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, continuing its campaign of censorship against truthfully-described herbal supplements, seized $71,000 worth of Charantea herbal supplements last week in a ...

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18 October 2007 Salt in our food is a major cause of high blood pressure (hypertension) – but it’s news to the American food industry.  There, salt intake from food has increased by 50 per cent since 1970 – and it’s reckoned that 90 per cent of ...

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October 2007 The detailed data required under new adverse event reports (AERs) laws, need to be made transparent sooner rather than later, a major trade group has told the United States Food and Drug Administration. The Maryland-based American ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2007-10-16 12:52 - 0 comments

Editor: Robert J. Binstock Firm: Reich & Binstock October 08, 2007 By Scott Kappes Category: Defective Drugs Today it was announced that the FDA will be issuing warnings to doctors about the risks associated with certain ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2007-10-09 13:21 - 0 comments

October 03, 2007: WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it is considering the possibility of establishing a "behind-the-counter" system that could allow more prescription drugs to be sold ...

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October 02 2007 By Dr. Mercola The South American herb stevia, which is used as a natural sweetener, has been called an “unsafe food additive” by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA sent a letter to Hain Celestial Group ...

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 by: David Gutierrez (NewsTarget) Approximately half the users of GlaxoSmithKline's new diet drug Alli may experience gastrointestinal side effects, according to clinical trials conducted before the drug's approval. Alli ...

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Monday, September 17, 2007 by: David Gutierrez NewsTarget) Earlier this year, the FDA announced a series of significant changes to its policy on conflict of interest in advisory panels. Up until now, there have been no rules barring experts with ...

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By JOHN CARREYROU and JACOB GOLDSTEIN September 14, 2007; Page A9 Drug maker Cephalon Inc. sent letters to doctors this week warning them that several deaths have been linked to Fentora, its powerful narcotic to treat acute cancer pain. Fentora ...

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By Bruce Japsen | Tribune staff reporter September 11, 2007 The number of serious injuries and deaths from drugs reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration more than doubled between 1998 and 2005, according to a report in Monday's ...

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By Todd Zwillich WebMD Medical News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD Sept. 5, 2007 -- A new HIV drug gained a federal advisory panel's backing for rapid government approval Wednesday. The drug, known by the brand name Isentress, will join more ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2007-09-06 13:07 - 0 comments

Organic Consumers Association, 6/22/2007 Straight to the Source CONTACT: Ronnie Cummins 218-226-4164 June 22, 2007 Despite receiving more than ten thousand comments from consumers and family farmers opposing various aspects of a late May ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2007-09-04 16:21 - 0 comments

Article Date: 24 Aug 2007 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced it is going to set new standards for formulating, testing and labelling over the counter sunscreen products. The main area of concern is that currently sunscreens ...

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By RONALD L. TROWBRIDGE and STEVEN WALKER August 14, 2007; Page A17 Last week, the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision by its own three-judge panel and ruled 8-2 against a dying patient's right to pursue life by taking ...

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By RONALD L. TROWBRIDGE and STEVEN WALKER August 14, 2007; Page A17 Last week, the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision by its own three-judge panel and ruled 8-2 against a dying patient's right to pursue life by taking ...

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Last December, a panel of experts mulled over a menu of options during a public meeting at the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Nutrition in College Park, MD. More than 230 government officials, consumer advocates, and industry representatives debated ...

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Food companies would love to capitalize on consumer interest in functional foods. Before they can, however, someone has to figure out exactly what functional foods are.  FDA currently does not have an official definition, nor does it plan to create ...

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To the Editor: The article by Dr Levine and colleagues on recommendations for vitamin C intake provides strong rationale for raising the recommended intake for vitamin C from the current level of 60 mg/d to as high as 200 mg/d. However, several ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2007-08-07 16:37 - 0 comments

July 31st, 2007 I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked or surprised anymore by what anyone at the FDA(vandia) does. I know they’re funded by Big Pharma. I know that many of their decisions seem to make no sense at all from a ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2007-08-03 14:19 - 0 comments