Product Safety Chief Sees Setbacks in Senate Bill
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The chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission says a Senate bill that would more than double the agency's budget and expand its authority would be too difficult for the agency to implement and "put the American people at greater risk."
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WASHINGTON &#151; Safety concerns about a GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug prompted some Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday to rebuke the Food and Drug Administration and call for increased regulation of the pharmaceutical industry.
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NEW YORK - The pharmaceutical industry has endured a disastrous 2004, and the aftermath will linger into the new year. Regulators at the Food and Drug Administration were expected to take a more cautious approach
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Companies face prosecution if they fail to ensure the safety of  workers or the public, under measures announced in the Queen's speech.
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A key U.S. lawmaker said on Thursday he had not yet seen a workable approach to creating an approval pathway for generic versions of expensive biotechnology medicines.
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Americans are skeptical of imported food and other products after repeated safety scares, said lawmakers on Wednesday, who want to give the Food and Drug Administration more power to inspect imports and recall defective ones.
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Some U.S. Senate Republicans voiced reservations on Thursday about a bill designed to stop drug makers from striking deals to restrict the introduction of cheaper generic drugs.
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Health and safety officials are urged to act after a report finds one in three industry deaths occur on building sites.
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Importing cheaper prescription  medicines would require costly safety measures and save U.S.  consumers little money, a government task force said on Tuesday  in a report that lawmakers and others criticized as echoing  drug industry scare tactics.
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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food  and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of a  Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic and some other prescription drugs on  Tuesday.
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Amid questions about whether the arthritis drug Vioxx was taken off the market soon enough, a key senator suggested Friday that an independent board of drug safety might
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Cheaper versions of biologic drugs can be made safely, a U.S. Senate panel heard on Thursday, but brand-name makers of the pricey therapies for cancer and other diseases warned substitutes could be risky.
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Consumer groups are criticizing the governmentâs handling of problems with Sears kitchen ranges in an effort to pressure legislators to toughen safety laws.
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The German slated to become the European Union's next industry commissioner suggested Thursday he might consider toning down proposed chemical safety rules, citing concerns they are too bureacratic and would hamper business.
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Toymakers will face strict safety tests and steep fines for safety breaches if a new US law is passed.
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A manufacturing trade association executive is President Bush's pick to be chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Democrats and consumer advocates on Thursday voiced concern that the nominee would be too beholden to business interests.
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A Democratic senator warned CIA director Porter Goss yesterday that his efforts to make major changes could have &#39;&#39;a significant and negative effect on the agency.