On February 22, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hosted a webinar on two draft guidance documents for the transition plans for medical devices commercialized pursuant to either Emergency Use Authorization...more
On December 22, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two draft guidance documents for the transition plans for medical devices commercialized pursuant to either Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or the...more
On November 16, 2020, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert (the Alert) regarding speaker programs hosted by pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Speaker programs are company-sponsored...more
On November 17, 2020, nine months after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Lucira Health for the first COVID-19 diagnostic test for...more
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning letter to Luminex Corporation. Luminex "manufactures microsphere-based and [polymerase chain reaction] PCR-based multiplexing systems for in-vitro...more
On May 7, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a revised Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for disposable filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) manufactured in China that do not meet National Institute...more
Recently, a New York-based dietary supplement manufacturer (and its subsidiaries) issued a nationwide recall of all lots of dietary supplement products manufactured and sold between January 2013-November 2019. Because the...more
2/12/2020
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The legal definitions of a drug and a medical device set forth in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act have some important overlapping provisions. Because of the overlapping provisions, theoretically the U.S. Food and Drug...more
12/20/2019
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Recently, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb issued a statement (the statement) outlining a new policy to improve access and foster price competition for branded drugs that are...more
High throughput sequencers, including next generation, or NGS, sequencers; polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, machines; flow cytometers; and other instruments are routinely used in conducting in vitro diagnostic assays. Many...more
Background: The Increasing Regulation of Medical Devices Subject to 510(k) Clearance -
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) 510(k) premarket clearance pathway is the road to commercialization for thousands of...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a Federal Register notice (the notice) that the FDA intends to conduct a web-based survey for a "more current understanding of the prevalence of adverse reactions to...more
After several high-profile defeats in both district and circuit courts involving the off-label promotion of regulated products and the First Amendment, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now engaged in a...more
In This Issue:
- The Rise of Companion Diagnostics in Personalized Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities
- Department of Justice Imposes More Than $110 Million in Fines on Medical Device Makers
- Life...more
6/24/2015
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Personal care products, which include cosmetics, are a large, profitable, growth industry. In the United States, cosmetics are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic...more