The FDA – that’s the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – is part of the federal government. Its mission is to make sure that foods, medicines, and other products important to your health are safe and work well. It gets its power from laws passed by Congress. The FDA sets rules fo...
Even if a food or drug sale that falls fully within one state might indirectly impact sales between states, the federal government has the authority to regulate it. The FDA relies on authority from the commerce clause to broadly regulate the many types of products within their purview. Challengi...
The FDA does not regulate CME but ... it does regulate promotion, and often the line between what it considers scientific education and industry-sponsored promotion is fuzzy. (Food and Drug Administration; continuing medical education; pharmaceutical industry)(includes related article)...
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Administration (FDA) doesn’t regulate collagen supplements. They don’t require the double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trials that medications do to be approved. The manufacturers of supplements don’t have to prove that their products are safe or effective before putting them on the ...
The FDA doesn't regulate collagen powder or any other type of dietary supplement. So, there's no guarantee that your collagen supplement contains the type or amount of collagen the label says it does. There's also a chance it could be contaminated with pesticides, bacteria, or other substanc...
Jones, who also served on the panel convened by Reagan-Udall to evaluate FDA’s human foods program, met with Israelsen and delegates from four other industry trade associations in December to discuss issues related to food safety and nutrition—the(AHPA), ...
People with celiac disease can now have confidence in the meaning of a "gluten-free" label on foods. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule that defines what characteristics a food has to have to bear a label that proclaims it "g
such actions. For example, in the caseFDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.(2000), the Supreme Court concluded that the FDA lacked the power to regulate tobacco. In 2009, Congress passed theFamily Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, granting the FDA the authority to regulate tobacco...
the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) have formally agreed to jointly regulate cell-cultured meat and poultry products. Seafood products are to be regulated solely by the FDA7,8....