Current Affairs

As Partial Government Shutdown Kicks In, FDA’s Foods Program Is Hardest HitOctober 1st, 2013
By Ricardo Carvajal & Kurt R. Karst – According to contingency plans drawn up by the Department of Health and Human Services, 45% of FDA’s nearly 15,000 staff were to be furloughed in the absence of enacted annual appropriations – popularly referred to as a …
FDA’s Hearing on Social Media – More Questions, No AnswersNovember 19th, 2009
By Dara Katcher Levy On November 12 and 13, FDA held a Public Hearing on Promotion of FDA-Regulated Medical Products Using the Internet and Social Media Tools. The hearing represents FDA’s second attempt at gathering information on using the internet to promote medical products – …
How do you solve a problem like Sidewiki? (our apologies to the Sound of Music)November 16th, 2009
By Jeffrey N. Wasserstein Your faithful bloggers at FDA Law Blog are, as you might expect, big fans of social media tools. After all, we blog, we tweet, and we are on LinkedIn, and Facebook (but no, we’re not friending all of our readers). (We also …