The $2.5 billion requested for the Food and Drug Administration in the Obama administration’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal “falls far short of what the agency needs to fulfill its responsibilities,” said the Alliance for a Stronger FDA on March 5. The advocacy group, which represents a broad range of nearly 200 non-profits, trade associations and companies, said the 1% increase over FY 2014 levels isn’t nearly enough, and will weaken the agency. “Substantial increases are needed to support FDA’s critical mission,” it said.
On March 4 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research will be moving from its current facilities in Rockville and Bethesda, Md., to FDA’s main White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Md., said the agency in a Federal Register notice. The move will begin around May 1, and should take about 8 weeks, until around July 1, it said. FDA said it will post new addresses for CBER as they become available (here).
The Food and Drug Administration is reopening the comment period until May 5 on a proposal to ban companies from listing solid or dried sugar cane syrup as “evaporated cane juice.” FDA had in 2009 requested comments on a draft guidance that would have set the name for solid or dried sugar cane syrup as “dried cane syrup” instead of “evaporated cane juice” on food labels, because the latter falsely suggests the sweetener is juice. FDA said it is now asking for more comments on the issue because it hasn’t yet decided what the name on food labels should be.
On March 3 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
During the week of Feb. 24 - March 2, the Food and Drug Administration modified the following existing Import Alerts (not otherwise listed on the FDA's new and revised import alerts page) on the detention without physical examination and/or surveillance of:
On Feb. 28 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Feb. 27 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration issued its weekly Enforcement Report for Feb. 26 that lists the status of recalls and field corrections for food, drugs, biologics, and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.
On Feb. 25 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: