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FDA: J&J delayed reporting insulin pump problems

Federal regulators have warned Johnson & Johnson that it could face fines and other sanctions for selling faulty insulin pumps and delaying disclosures of serious injuries to diabetics who used them.

January 11, 2012

NDSU professor: FDA bill will make food safer

A bill that broadens the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight over food safety, including the power to force recalls of tainted products, was an inevitable outgrowth of consumer demand and will benefit consumers and the food industry, a North Dakota State University professor said Tuesday.

By By Helmut Schmidt, Forum Communications Co. , January 05, 2011

FDA to consider approval of modified salmon

WASHINGTON — Federal food regulators pondered Monday whether to say, for the first time, that it's OK to market a genetically engineered animal as safe for people to eat.

By By Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press , September 20, 2010

Meeting to discuss Huntington’s set

The Huntington’s Disease Northern Prairie Advocates will feature a presentation on tetrabenazine at its next meeting. This drug was recently approved by the Federal Drug Administration and is specific to Huntington’s disease patients.

March 16, 2010

Letter to the editor: Regulate perscription drugs, not dietary supplements

While Americans continue to fight the government takeover of our health care, Sen. John McCain announced his plan for the government to regulate all dietary supplements. His Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 calls upon the Food and Drug Administration to regulate dietary supplements as if they are drugs. The language is so sweeping that the FDA would have a free hand to regulate all food products, which are manufactured to supplement nutrition. Has this country gone completely insane? How many people die each year from prescription drugs?

By Cory Christofferson , March 10, 2010

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Drug-import backers worry Obama may scuttle plan

A long-running effort to allow the import of lower-cost prescription drugs faces a new twist — President Barack Obama’s administration is raising safety concerns that could effectively scuttle it, even though Obama backed the plan as a senator.

By By Alan Fram, The Associated Press , December 10, 2009

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FDA pressed to allow online ads

As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other Web sites.

November 12, 2009

FDA approves new swine flu vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration approved the new swine flu vaccine Tuesday, a long-anticipated step as the government works to start mass vaccinations next month. Limited supplies should start trickling out the first week of October — about a week earlier than expected, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told Congress. Then about 45 million doses should arrive around Oct. 15, followed by more shipments each week.

September 16, 2009

FDA requires faster food safety reporting

Food makers must alert government officials of potentially contaminated products within 24 hours under a new rule designed to help federal regulators spot food safety issues sooner. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday unveiled a new electronic database where manufacturers must notify the government if they believe one of their products is likely to cause sickness or death in people or animals.

September 09, 2009

Panel: Lower dosage for pain

Government experts called for sweeping safety restrictions Tuesday on the most widely used painkiller, including reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and eliminating prescription drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet. The Food and Drug Administration assembled 37 experts to recommend ways to reduce deadly overdoses with acetaminophen, which is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S. and sends 56,000 people to the emergency room annually. About 200 die each year.

By By Matthew Perrone, The Associated Press , July 01, 2009

Nestle refused FDA information

Inspection reports from a Nestle USA cookie dough factory released Friday show the company refused several times to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information.

June 27, 2009

Other views: Finally, the FDA will regulate tobacco

Regulation of tobacco soon will be where it belongs: with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The fiction that nicotine is not a drug that should be regulated has been promoted by the big tobacco companies long enough.

By The Forum , June 22, 2009

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FDA investigating heparin deaths

The Food and Drug Administration is investigating the death of two Delaware hospital patients who were given the blood thinner heparin. Officials at Beebe Medical Center in Lewes said three patients suffered adverse reactions after being given the drug last week. Two of the patients, a 71-year-old man and a 64-year-old wo-man, died over the weekend.

May 12, 2009

FDA sets safe level for infant formula

Federal regulators set a safety threshold Friday for the industrial chemical melamine that is greater than the amount of contamination found so far in U.S.-made infant formula.

November 29, 2008

Food warning issued in N.D.

In conjunction with an alert from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the North Dakota Department of Health is warning residents not to consume several types of Mr. Brown instant coffee and milk tea products and White Rabbit Creamy Candies that have been recalled be-cause of concerns about possible contamination with melamine, according to Kenan Bullinger, director of the department’s Division of Food and Lodging.

October 02, 2008