Category: FDA – Food and Drug Administration

FDA To Regulate Cosmetics Makers—Partly

New powers granted to the Food and Drug Agency (FDA) give the agency the ability to shut down cosmetic companies making products like shampoo, makeup, and toothpaste that expose consumers to injury or disease. The updated regulations come from the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (MOCRA) of 2022, which was tucked into the massive Consolidated Appropriations…


FDA’s New Powers Over Cosmetics Makers Still Don’t Guarantee Consumer Safety, Says EWG

New powers granted to the Food and Drug Agency (FDA) give the agency the ability to shut down cosmetic companies making products like shampoo, makeup, and toothpaste that expose consumers to injury or disease. The updated regulations come from the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (MOCRA) of 2022, which was tucked into the massive Consolidated Appropriations…


DeSantis Files Lawsuit Against FDA for Delaying Drug Program

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—For 630 days a warehouse in Lakeland has sat vacant—waiting on a shipment of drugs from Canada that never came. Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Aug. 31 that he “has waited long enough” and is filing suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to “put an end to” delays. DeSantis told a crowd…


Top Scientists Alarmed and Embarrassed by Agencies’ Failure to Follow Science on COVID

Top doctors and scientists at the leading U.S. public health agencies are “frustrated, exasperated and alarmed” about the direction of the agencies they work for, according to the authors of a Substack post published last week. They’re also embarrassed — about “bad science.” And many are leaving. “It’s like a horror movie I’m being forced to watch…


Biden Administration Faces Criticism For Poor Planning In Securing Monkeypox Vaccines

The White House is facing criticism for its failure to secure the stockpile of JYNNEOS monkeypox vaccines it owns in Denmark. A June 28 letter sent to the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Preparedness and Response pointed out that Americans…


Over 10,000 COVID-19 Claims Removed From VAERS, 500 Death Reports Deleted, Claims Data Analyst

More than 10,000 COVID-19-related reports have been deleted from the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), according to Albert Benavides, a data analyst who has been analyzing VAERS data since the COVID-19 vaccines were released for public usage. The VAERS database is an early warning system maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)…


Florida Residents Sentenced to 18 Years’ Prison Over Fraud Scheme Involving Baby Formula

Three individuals from South Florida have each been sentenced to 220 months in prison by a federal district judge in Miami after a jury found them guilty of a fraud scheme involving infant formula, eye-care products, and other FDA-regulated items. Between 2013 and 2018, Johnny Grobman, 48, Raoul Doekhie, 53, and Sherida Nabi, 57, deceived…


FDA Declines to Approve 2 More China-Tested Drugs

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday declined to approve two cancer treatment drugs developed by drugmakers who tested their products mainly in China. The federal agency’s rejection is a sign of an increasingly tough U.S stance on drugs being tested solely in China, after some drugmakers moved to save costs by conducting…


Florida to Receive 4,000 Doses of New Monoclonal Antibodies Treatment

PUNTA GORDA, Florida–Florida is scheduled to receive 4,000 doses of a monoclonal antibody treatment that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found to be effective against the omicron variant that is derived from COVID-19. On Feb. 11,  the FDA sent a letter to Eli Lily, the maker of Bebtelovimab, that the company has…


DeSantis Angry Over Decision to Revoke Emergency Use of Monoclonal Antibodies

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is “hopping mad” over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to pull emergency use authorization of monoclonal antibody treatments and has vowed to “fight back.” On Jan. 25 more than 2,000 Floridians woke up to emails and text messages telling them their appointments to receive monoclonal therapies were canceled…