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USA - February 13 2013
Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Final Rule that adopts, without any change, the Agency's interim final rule…
USA - January 31 2013
The FDA and FTC issued a rare multi-agency Warning Letter to Flu and Cold Defense LLC (FCD) on January 24, 2013 for claiming that its product…
USA - January 29 2013
On December 7, 2012, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published final regulations in the Federal Register implementing a new excise tax on the sale…
USA - August 10 2012
On July 26, 2012, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that the national apparel retailer Burlington Coat Factory has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $1.5 million for selling numerous styles of children’s upper outerwear garments with neck drawstrings (which are considered hazardous by CPSC due to potential risks of entanglement and strangulation) over an 8-year period.
USA - May 10 2012
It has been approximately 16 months since passage for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), yet key rulemaking provisions of the law are currently being held up at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), even though President Obama has been a strong supporter to the legislation.
