FDA News Digest for July 28, 2008

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Title: FDA News Digest for July 28, 2008

FDA News Digest

July 28, 2008

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IN THIS WEEK'S ISSUE

 

»  News

    -- Xiadafil VIP Tablets Seized After Company Refuses to Recall Product

»  Safety Alerts/Recalls

»  Upcoming Public Meetings

»  Consumer Health Information

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NEWS

 

Xiadafil VIP Tablets Seized After Company Refuses to Recall Product

U.S. marshals have seized nearly $74,000 worth of Xiadafil VIP tablets (lots 6K029 and 6K209-SEI) distributed by Florida-based SEI Pharmaceuticals Inc. Although this product is marketed as a dietary supplement to treat erectile dysfunction and for sexual enhancement, these lots represent an illegally marketed drug containing an undeclared ingredient.

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01864.html 

 

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SAFETY ALERTS/RECALLS

 

Safety Alert:

 

FDA is warning consumers to avoid eating tomalley in American lobster (also called Maine lobster), regardless of where the lobster was harvested, because of potential contamination with dangerous levels of the toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP). These types of lobster are harvested from the Atlantic Ocean from Northeastern Canada to South Carolina. The FDA advisory applies only to tomalley -- the soft, green substance found in the body cavity of the lobster that functions as the liver and pancreas. Cooking does not eliminate the PSP toxins. 

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01866.html 

 

For a complete 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. 

 

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UPCOMING PUBLIC MEETINGS

 

Sept. 8-10 -- Parenteral Drug Association (PDA)/FDA Joint Regulatory Conference

    Location: Washington, D.C.

http://www.pda.org/webmodules/webarticles/templates/new_conferences_2008_PDA_FDA.aspx?articleid=1453&zoneid=190

 

Sept. 10-12 -- Parenteral Drug Association (PDA)/FDA Pharmaceutical Ingredient Supply Chain Conference

    Location: Washington, D.C.

http://www.pda.org/webmodules/webarticles/templates/2008_PDA-FDA_Pharmaceutical_Ingredient_Supply_Chain_Conference.aspx?articleid=1803&zoneid=233

 

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:

 

› Are You Storing Food Safely?

http://www.fda.gov/consumer/updates/foodstorage072108.html

› Making Sense of Vytorin Concerns

http://www.fda.gov/consumer/updates/vytorin071808.html

   

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

 

 

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