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What Happened: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its draft post-market chemical review prioritization method for public comment. Public comments are due July 18, 2025....more
When the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission unveiled its Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment on May 22 (reissued May 28), it framed the document as a clarion call: U.S. regulators must combat childhood...more
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What Happened: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to update its food safety post-market chemical review program over the next few months to increase transparency and accelerate its...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) March 2025 publication of its new “Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool” spotlighted a lesser-known aspect of FDA’s regulation of pesticide residues on food: action levels....more
Just before the change in administration, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made headlines by revoking approvals to use the color additive FD&C Red Dye No. 3 in food after January 15, 2027. This was the latest example of...more
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What Happened: HHS Secretary Kennedy directed FDA to consider removing the current self-affirmation pathway for determining that a food ingredient is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS)....more
Mandatory testing of talc-containing cosmetic products is coming. At the end of December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a cosmetics rule and test method for asbestos in talc that was required under Section...more
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What Happened: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new guidance regarding the registration and listing of cosmetic product facilities and products....more
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What Happened: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released four updates regarding MoCRA in December....more
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What Happened: FDA announced delayed enforcement for MoCRA facility registration and product listing information....more
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What Happened: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released Draft Guidance for Industry: Registration and Listing of Cosmetic Product Facilities and Products, providing more information on the newly...more
With the passage of Washington’s Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act of 2023, several states are gearing up to pass similar laws. The new Washington law bans the manufacture, sale, and distribution of cosmetic products that contain any...more
Compared to drugs and even food, cosmetics have been the regulatory stepchild in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) since its adoption in 1938 – until now. At the end of 2022, Congress enacted legislation to...more
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• What Happened: FDA updated its temporary hand sanitizer production policies to permit use of fuel- or technical-grade ethanol that contains certain impurities up to given limits.
• Who’s Impacted:...more
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• What Happened: FDA announced temporary relief from certain premarket regulatory requirements pertaining to certain new or modified medical devices intended for use against the novel coronavirus....more
Beware of fraudulent claims that products will kill the coronavirus (officially, the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2) or cure the disease caused by that virus (Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019, abbreviated as COVID-19). The Food...more
On October 25, 2017, Senator Orin Hatch (R-UT) introduced S. 2003, the “FDA Cosmetic Safety and Modernization Act.” The proposed legislation would amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 (“FFDCA”) and allow the...more
In what is the latest in a line of Congressional proposals to beef up the federal government’s authority to regulate cosmetics, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), has proposed a bill aimed at dramatically increasing Food and...more