Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt and FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach announce Jan. 15 the agencies have offices established in New Delhi, and Mumbai, India. Ten HHS/FDA officials will be assigned in India "to work closely with industries that ship food and medical products to the United States, to improve safety and quality, which will facilitate the smooth flow of trade," HHS says. FDA also has a presence in China, Central America and Europe. As part of its Beyond Our Borders Initiative, the agency says it will expand in 2009 to Mexico, the Middle East and South America and open additional European sites (1"The Tan Sheet" Jan. 28, 2008, p. 3)
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The US FTC’s contention that ‘notice and choice’ has failed as the cornerstone of consumer privacy regulation and must be abandoned in favor of data minimization and other more stringent measures does not adequately account for the complexity of business practices and consumer behavior, FTC commissioner Melissa Holyoak asserted at the NAD’s 2024 Annual Conference.
FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak says the agency has acted outside the bounds afforded by Congress, citing several areas within consumer protection, including a recent update to the final rule for the Health Breach Notification Rule and the commission’s use of notices of penalty offense to serve as the basis for Section 5 settlements.
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Creating a working group to drive Rx-to-OTC switch is one of the ways in which Finland could expand self-care and save €60m per year for the country's health system, suggests a recently published report commissioned by Haleon.
Terclara - Moberg’s proprietary topical formulation of terbinafine for fungal nail - has established itself as the market leader in Norway just months after its OTC launch. The firm is now plotting its expansion to additional EU markets.
Reacting to chancellor Rachel Reeves' 2025 public spending review, PAGB welcomed increased funding for healthcare and life sciences while stressing the need to promote self-care practices.
