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FDA Regulatory Updates for Summer 2025: Food, Supplements, and Cosmetics

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Recent actions by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) reflect a sharpened scrutiny in areas where public health and safety may be critical, but a more relaxed approach in areas where it views innovation may be...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

2024 Environmental, Health, and Safety Outlook for Manufacturers

PFAS — perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances — have been on the scene for years now, but we expect to see exponential growth in all things PFAS in 2024....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Executive Order on Essential Medicines: A Timeline and Overview of Key Provisions

On August 6, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Ensuring Essential Medicines, Medical Countermeasures and Critical Inputs Are Made in the United States.” The far-reaching EO seeks to ensure the domestic...more

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New Jersey Expands Business Shutdowns, Imposes New Rules On Essential Businesses And Retail Customers

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy just issued an executive order that expands the existing statewide partial business shutdown and regulates onsite conduct at many of the businesses remaining open, including the conduct of...more

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U.S. Cares Act Supply Shortage Provisions: What Drug And Device Manufacturers Need To Know

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On March 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in response to the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, there has been public discussion...more

Bracewell LLP

Is Your Manufacturing Operation an "Essential Business" in the Age of the Coronavirus?

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As a business with manufacturing operations that cannot be operated remotely by employees at home, it is challenging to comply with health and safety obligations in the age of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), while also preserving...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Nota Bene Episode 71: Shifting Regulatory Landscapes at the FDA: Cannabis, Vaping and Intelligent Medical Devices with Allison...

2019 ushered in numerous changes and new initiatives at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). From the increasing popularity of cannabis use to the rapidly evolving nature of artificial intelligence in medical devices,...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Coronavirus: Impact on the Retail Industry

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 or “COVID-19” continues to dominate national and international discussion. News outlets in Boston, New York, London, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, and every other city and town in the world continue...more

Hogan Lovells

FDA postpones foreign inspections amid growing concerns over coronavirus (COVID-19)

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On 10 March 2020, FDA announced that it is postponing most foreign inspections through April 2020.  This action comes as the latest in a series of agency responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks in foreign...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

International Trade Impacts of The Coronavirus: Update On Government And Industry Actions And Key Considerations For Trade...

The new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19, have created diverse, complex, and immediate challenges for world governments, multinational businesses, and other international institutions and projects....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Coronavirus: Considerations for an Emergency Supply-Chain Response Plan

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We are in "unchartered territory" with the coronavirus, or COVID-19, according to the the World Health Organization's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The virus has been documented in more than 70 countries and...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

Unfolding Coronavirus Conditions Present Unprecedented Challenges For Manufacturers

The patchwork of federal, state and local laws addressing leaves of absence, protections of people with disabilities and a manufacturer’s general obligation to provide a safe workplace come head-to-head with public reports of...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Managing the Commercial Impact of the Coronavirus: An Effective Supply Chain Response Plan

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...The coronavirus (provisionally named SARS-CoV-2, with its disease being named COVID-19) has now been documented in six of the world’s seven continents, with more than 80,000 cases, sparing only Antarctica. Closer to home,...more

Stinson LLP

The Impact of the Coronavirus on the Global Supply Chain

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At the end of December, China acknowledged the existence of the coronavirus, and this burgeoning heath crisis is becoming a supply chain problem. China, a major manufacturing hub for materials, products and components being...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Coronavirus Outbreak Prompts Supply Chain Disruptions

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Now in its third month, the coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, has claimed over 2,000 lives and brought one of the world’s most dynamic economies to a near standstill. ...more

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Addressing the Impact of the Coronavirus on the Public Sector Supply Chain

At the end of December, China acknowledged the existence of the coronavirus. We don’t know how long it has been around or how many people have actually contracted the virus. We do know the virus has spread at an alarming rate...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Product Liability 2019 Year in Review

Massachusetts state and federal courts issued a number of important product liability decisions in 2019. The Product Liability practice group at Nutter recently reviewed these cases. Highlighted below are some of the key...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

FDA Stresses CBD Safety Concerns in 15 Warning Letters and Revised Consumer Update

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In its largest mass enforcement action involving cannabidiol (CBD) yet, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced on November 25 the issuance of 15 warning letters to various companies for illegally selling products...more

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