Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations leaders ask GNC, USPlabs and FDA about the safety and history of use of DMAA. GNC says it does not manufacture products that include DMAA, but plans to sell through its inventory of USPlabs’ Jack3d.
House Energy & Commerce Committee members are questioning FDA, [GNC Holdings Inc.]and sports nutrition manufacturer USPlabs LLC over the continued sale of DMAA dietary supplements.
In a May 8 letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, the lawmakers cite the agency’s earlier warning letters...
The REMS removal and labeling changes should open up CAR-T treatment to many more US patients, although other regulatory hurdles and safety language that experts had wanted removed still stand.
The US FDA will not be in its usual position as the first regulator to approve novel drugs, with only one of the six novel candidates on the July user fee calendar seeking its first approval worldwide in the US
Ongoing questions about user fees exerting too much influence over the FDA could spawn a shift in the PDUFA structure when talks begin later this year.
The new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted for new recommendations on the decades-old thimerosal safety issue and lays intellectual groundwork to revisit other past controversies and decisions.
