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LDT Rule Vacated: FDA Backs Down, but Uncertainty Remains

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In December 2024, we published an alert highlighting the FDA’s final rule on Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) and the compliance countdown to May 2025. The rule, issued in May 2024, sought to phase out the agency’s...more

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Judge Blocks FDA Regulation of Laboratory-Developed Tests

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On March 31, 2025, a judge in the Eastern District of Texas struck down a 2024 Final Rule (the "Final Rule") by the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") that exerted jurisdiction over the regulation of laboratory-developed...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

District Court Vacates FDA LDT Rule; What’s Next for Regulation of Lab Testing?

On March 31, 2025, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an opinion and judgment in American Clinical Laboratory Association v. FDA. Judge Jordan’s decision vacates and sets...more

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Challenges to LDT Final Rule Continue as Rule Goes into Effect

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As discussed in our May 6, 2024, Client Alert, earlier this year FDA issued its Final Rule for the regulation of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) that the FDA has historically treated with enforcement discretion. A week...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

FDA Publishes Final Rule on Regulation of Lab-Developed Tests

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On May 6, 2024 the FDA published its much-anticipated Final Rule on Lab-Developed Tests (“LDTs”) to make explicit that in vitro diagnostic products (“IVDs”) are devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FD&C...more

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FDA Finalizes Rule Regulating Laboratory Developed Tests

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FDA’s Final Rule regulating Laboratory-Developed Tests (LDTs) has been published in the Federal Register yesterday, May 6, 2024. This follows a decades-long effort by some stakeholders to clarify the regulatory status of...more

Epstein Becker & Green

FDA’s LDT Proposed Rule Heads to the White House

As discussed in our June Insight, earlier this year FDA publicly announced its development of a proposed rule that would expressly define laboratory developed tests (“LDTs”) as medical devices and subject them to the agency’s...more

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FDA's 'Conversation Starter' Paper Suggests Altered Approach for Laboratories

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While a new U.S. Food & Drug Administration discussion paper neither serves as legal guidance nor effects any immediate policy changes, its issuance does suggest that the FDA may take a less stringent approach to regulating...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

FDA Set to Regulate LDTs - Citing Safety Concerns and Advanced Technologies

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Advances in medical technology have increased the use of diagnostic tests to guide therapeutic decisions for many diseases and conditions, especially in the context of personalized medicine. Citing the need to ensure that...more

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