There were so many interesting and significant developments related to the various missions of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during the last week or so of September 2022 that we decided to create a summary...more
10/11/2022
/ 21st Century Cures Act ,
510(k) RTA ,
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) ,
CDS ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Dietary Guidelines ,
Draft Guidance ,
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) ,
FDA De Novo Clearance ,
Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Medical Devices ,
Over The Counter Drugs (OTC) ,
Proposed Rules ,
Public Health ,
Software ,
User Fees ,
Virus Testing
Anyone who has spent any time around health care policymaking circles in Washington, D.C. has heard about the intense five-year cycle Congress goes through in order to reauthorize the biggest user fee programs at the Food and...more
On May 4, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time issued warning letters related to products containing delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-8 THC). FDA has previously sent warning letters to...more
It is, somewhat amazingly, the beginning of January again. During this time of year we typically publish a series of blog posts that recap the most interesting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) activities over the prior 12...more
Over the course of 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released numerous guidance documents covering diverse areas and aimed at increasing the availability of various medical products to prevent, treat, and diagnose...more
11/17/2021
/ CDRH ,
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Goods or Services ,
Healthcare ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Medical Devices ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Relief Measures ,
Retail Market ,
Temporary Regulations
Agencies of the federal government with a consumer protection mission have always tended to work closely together and to share information, but the COVID-19 pandemic has made those cooperative efforts even more visible to the...more
In its first exercise of a newly granted authority, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or the Commission) on April 15, 2021 charged a St. Louis-based chiropractor and his company (the Defendants) with violating the COVID-19...more
Although the Biden-Harris Administration that assumed control of the Executive Branch on January 20, 2021 immediately ordered a regulatory freeze of new or pending rules while the new administration gets its bearings, several...more
1/29/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
CARES Act ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Generic Drugs ,
Health Care Providers ,
Orange Book ,
PDUFA ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Public Health Service Act ,
Regulatory Agenda
In addition to the incredible work of agency scientists and reviewers to get the first COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use in December (as we covered in Part 2 of our year-end post), the Food and Drug...more
12/28/2020
/ Biologics ,
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
FDA Warning Letters ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Over The Counter Drugs (OTC) ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Vaccinations
Following up on our colleagues’ post earlier this month covering the Food and Drug Administration’s 2020 device law and policy activities, this post will explore prescription drug and biologic law and policy developments over...more
12/22/2020
/ Biologics ,
CDRH ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) ,
FDA Warning Letters ,
Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Life Sciences ,
Pharmaceutical Industry
Back in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we published a post outlining the different kinds of diagnostic tests that were being marketed and the different roles of the two main federal regulators that oversee the...more
11/6/2020
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
CLIA ,
Clinical Laboratory Testing ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Diagnostic Tests ,
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Laboratory Developed Tests ,
Life Sciences ,
Over The Counter Drugs (OTC) ,
Virus Testing
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced what appears to be the first public warning made by the agency to a company promoting an approved prescription drug product for the unapproved use of treating...more
10/7/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
FDA Warning Letters ,
Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Intended Use ,
OPDP ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Proposed Rules
As previously covered on this blog, in mid-2019 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) jointly published the Safe Importation Action Plan, which outlined the Trump...more
9/28/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) ,
Final Rules ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Imports ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Medical Supplies ,
New Regulations ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Secretary of HHS ,
Supply Chain
As we discussed in our last update on the Food and Drug Administration’s Comprehensive Regenerative Medicine Policy Framework back in December 2019 (during the much simpler, pre-COVID-19 world), this coming November will...more
Responding to increased public and congressional criticism of its arguably too-flexible approach to regulatory oversight of serological tests used to detect COVID-19 antibodies, on May 4, 2020, the Food and Drug...more
Recently, newspapers and television news programs have been full of stories about laboratory testing and the important role it will play in containing the spread of COVID-19 and reopening U.S. economic activity. But these...more
Since our last roundup-style blog post on the response of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the agency has taken a wide variety of additional actions with the goal of getting...more
We’ve been blogging periodically on the various actions taken and enforcement policies being developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support and expand the national response to the declared COVID-19 public...more
As a follow up to our recent blog post, FDA User Fees: Highlights from FDARA & Our Forecast for the Next Round, President Trump signed the bipartisan over-the-counter (OTC) monograph reform bill into law on March 27, 2020....more
Two weeks ago, on March 9, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent warning letters to seven companies that allegedly made false or deceptive claims about their products’ ability to...more
As we write this update on the actions of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), more state and local governments (along with private businesses and employers) are taking sweeping actions to protect the public from the...more
Within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), many agencies have responsibility for responding to public health emergencies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as its name implies, is at...more
3/5/2020
/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,
Clinical Laboratories ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Laboratory Developed Tests ,
Medical Research ,
National Institute of Health (NIH) ,
Public Health ,
Research and Development