FDA News Digest

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Title: FDA News Digest

FDA News Digest

June 17, 2008

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IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE

 

»  News

    -- Administration Proposes More Funding to Improve Food, Medical Product Safety

    -- FDA Requests Boxed Warnings on Older Class of Antipsychotic Drugs

»  Congressional Testimony

»  Safety Alerts/Recalls

»  Upcoming Public Meetings

»  Consumer Health Information

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NEWS

 

Administration Proposes More Funding to Improve Food, Medical Product Safety

The administration is amending its budget request for fiscal year 2009 to include an additional $275 million for FDA. The budget amendment proposes increases for core FDA programs in food supply protection; drug, device, and biologics safety; and science and workforce modernizing. 

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2008pres/06/20080609a.html

 

FDA Requests Boxed Warnings on Older Class of Antipsychotic Drugs

FDA is requiring manufacturers of an older class of drugs known as "conventional" antipsychotics to make changes in labeling to warn that clinical studies indicate that those drugs are associated with an increased risk of death when used in elderly patients treated for dementia.

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01851.html 

  

To view an archive of recent FDA news releases, go to

http://www.fda.gov/opacom/hpnews.html.

   

To access the RSS feed of FDA news releases, go to

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/rssPress.xml.

[What is an RSS feed? See http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/newsfeeds.html.]

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CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY

 

June 12 -- FDA Associate Commissioner for Foods David Acheson, M.D., appeared before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

    Subject: ongoing activities to implement the Food Protection Plan

http://www.fda.gov/ola/2008/fpp061208.html

 

June 10 -- FDA Associate Commissioner for Science Norris Alderson, Ph.D., appeared before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.

    Subject: safety of bisphenol A (BPA)

http://www.fda.gov/ola/2008/BPA061008.html

 

To view an archive of past testimony by FDA officials, go to

http://www.fda.gov/ola/listing.html

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SAFETY ALERTS/RECALLS

 

Safety Alert:

 

› FDA is continuing to warn consumers nationwide that a salmonellosis outbreak has been linked to certain raw red plum, red Roma, and red round tomatoes, and products containing these raw, red tomatoes.

http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/tomatoes.html

 

For a list of recalls, market withdrawals, and safety alerts involving FDA-regulated

products from the past 60 days, go to http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html. 

 

To access the RSS feed of FDA recalls information, go to

http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/rssRecalls.xml  

[What is an RSS feed? See http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/newsfeeds.html.]  

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UPCOMING PUBLIC MEETINGS

 

For a complete list of upcoming meetings, seminars, and other public events sponsored

or co-sponsored by FDA, go to http://www.fda.gov/opacom/hpmeetings.html.

 

 

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION

 

Consumer updates in the spotlight this week are:

 

›  Your Guide to Reporting Problems to FDA

http://www.fda.gov/consumer/updates/reporting_guide061008.html

›  FDA 101: How to Use the Consumer Complaint System and MedWatch

http://www.fda.gov/consumer/updates/reporting061008.html

 

To receive all consumer updates by e-mail, go to http://www.fda.gov/consumer/consumerenews.html.

For the latest in consumer health news from FDA, visit http://www.fda.gov/consumer/default.htm. 

 

 

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