FDA to Issue Guidelines On Evaluating Biotech Food
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The Food and Drug Administration will publish draft guidelines today that would encourage companies to submit voluntary safety evaluations of bioengineered food crops that sometimes
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Europe's top food safety agency has been asked to determine whether meat and milk from cloned animals are safe to eat, European Commission officials said on Thursday.
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The Food and Drug Administration  should delay a decision on whether milk and meat from some  cloned animals are safe to eat until additional safety studies  can be conducted, a Democratic lawmaker and consumer groups  said in separate statements on Tuesday.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the way the agency monitors safety risks of medicines after they hit the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller Vioxx.
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LOS ANGELES -- The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it is checking whether shipments of Chinese seafood on an agency watch list were properly cleared for public consumption without being tested for banned drugs or chemicals.
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Mixing cells and eggs to be allowed in search for new medical treatments.
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By Katherine Griffiths in New York and Stephen Foley in London. The United States&#39; Food and Drug Administration used to be a regulator so trusted that when it waved through the introduction of genetically modified
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U.S. regulators said on Friday they would review a study showing a Merck and Schering-Plough cholesterol drug worked no better than a generic in preventing the build-up of arterial plaque.
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U.S. health officials said on Friday  they would review whether to take regulatory action over Merck  & Co Inc  and Schering-Plough's  cholesterol  medicine Vytorin following the drug's failure to work better  than a generic drug in a study of plaque build-up in neck  arteries.
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U.S. oversight of genetically  modified crops, which critics charge is insufficient, may be  overhauled following a series of proposed changes released on  Thursday by the Agriculture Department.
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US health officials announced steps on Thursday aimed at clarifying the way regulators police the safety and advertising claims of vitamins, herbs and other products in the $15-billion-a-year dietary supplements industry.
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Oct 18, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - In response to an apparent increase in illnesses due to contaminated produce, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released an &quot;action plan&quot; for reducing microbial contamination of fresh fruits and vegetables.
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A little-known Food and Drug program is testing the latest medical technology to determine how safe and useful it can be. One cutting-edge experiment is designed to see if
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The FDA will review its new cholesterol drug.
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Eyetech Pharmaceuticals (EYET:Nasdaq - news - research) faces an important regulatory test Aug. 27 when a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel will review Macugen, the company&#39;s experimental drug intended
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ruled food from certain cloned animals and their offspring is as safe as other food, opening the door for using the controversial technology in the U.S. food supply.
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The European Union's food safety watchdog may start checking whether food manufacturers are telling the truth when they claim food is "low fat" or "high in vitamins," the agency's head said on Monday.