FDA fines American Red Cross &#36;4.2M
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The government said Friday it was fining the American Red Cross $4.2 million for violating blood-safety laws.
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The federal government has fined the American Red Cross a record $5.7 million for violating blood-safety laws and the terms of a 2003 consent decree.
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The F.D.A. is seeking the fine because it says the charity has repeatedly failed to handle blood supplies properly.
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Bayer AG&#39;s US unit agreed to plead guilty and pay a $33 million fine for participating in a conspiracy to fix the price of chemicals used to make plastic grocery bags, shoe soles and
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The Red Cross federation, the world's  biggest humanitarian group, said on Wednesday it had raised a  record $1.167 billion in just 30 days for victims of the Asian  tsunami, enough to fund a 10-year recovery plan.
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WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service announced Monday that it had settled a dispute with the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline Holdings (Americas) under which Glaxo will pay $3.4 billion in the largest tax dispute in IRS history.
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The federal agency charged with keeping food and drugs from harming people may soon be asked to take a consumer product that kills more than 400,000 people a year and make it safer.
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The Food and Drug Administration of the US found itself in the midst of a rather unpleasant controversy. Recently the chief of Cleveland Clinic Foundationâs department of cardiovascular medicine blamed this
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The Red Cross has issued a call for help from communities across the nation in the wake of Hurricane Charley. The storm system that blew through Florida two weeks ago caused billions of dollars in damage - and
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The government is set to act against profiteering from blood that is donated by the public for free. Humphrey Zokufa, a chief director in the national department of health, said the government intended to
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday proposed to fine BP Plc  $92,000 for safety violations at a Texas City refinery where 15 workers died in a 2005 explosion and fire.
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HealthSouth Corp. has agreed to pay the US government $325 million to settle numerous allegations that the company defrauded Medicare and other government health programs, the Justice Department said yesterday.
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Lax oversight by the U.S.  Agriculture Department and confused food safety inspectors were  to blame for imports of 42,000 pounds of Canadian beef products  in 2004 that violated a U.S. mad cow disease ban, federal  investigators said on Wednesday.
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The federal government yesterday announced that it was fining the American Red Cross $4.2 million for continued failures to adequately protect the safety of the nation's blood supply.
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The Food and Drug Administration is giving workers more than $8 million in bonuses to keep them from defecting to pharmaceutical and other regulated industries, at the same time the agency is being pressed to spend more on food and drug safety.
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The US made a special exception on Tuesday to purchase as many as 4 million doses of flu vaccine not licensed for use in the US. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of GlaxoSmithKline influenza
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The government said Friday it was fining the American Red Cross $4.2 million for violating blood-safety laws. The violations include failing to ask appropriate questions of potential donors and not following test procedures, said the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said it had no evidence of serious health consequences resulting from the violations.