LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - California Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Ban Five Food Additives - California lawmakers have introduced first-in-the-nation legislation seeking to ban five food...more
On May 10, 2016, the FDA issued a document entitled Technical Considerations for Additive Manufacturing Devices. The document consists of 25 pages of “draft” guidelines that provide the FDA’s “initial thinking on...more
On May 10, 2016, FDA released a much-anticipated draft guidance (the “Guidance”) concerning medical devices that incorporate additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, a category which includes 3D printed devices. AM...more
Several hundred business leaders, engineers, attorneys and academics gathered last week for an annual symposium on 3D Printing hosted by Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff. The ability to form physical objects from...more
The rise of 3D printing holds tremendous potential to impact the economy from the local to the national level. Although it is still an estimated five to 10 years away from mainstream consumer adoption, we are already seeing...more
Benesch’s Mark Avsec attended this year’s CES show in Las Vegas, where additive manufacturing took center stage. In 2015, 3D printing stories each seemed to possess a similar headline: “Here is the first 3D-printed...more
On January 4, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule amending its food additive regulations to no longer allow the use of three specific perfluoroalkyl ethyl-containing food contact substances...more