When a non-prescription drug is primarily sold over-the-counter (OTC) and online, the primary regulatory agency is Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and not FDA. FTC monitors advertisement of such products and regulates them under false promotion laws to assure that marketing of such products does not claim more than it should. FTC appealed to FDA to apply same … Read more
Since the passage of Tobacco Control Act in 2009, the FDA has slowly built rules to regulate all forms or tobacco products, from ethnic Bidis to electronic cigarettes. FDA has released 16 rules to date that cover in details the current regulations. Under the Tobacco Control Act, FDA was given seemingly limited powers to assure that the tobacco industry is transparent on … Read more
More than 48 million people (1 in 6 Americans) get food poisoning every year because of contaminated or poor quality food. Foodborne diseases are responsible for about 128,000 hospitalizations and 3000 deaths, many of them infants and children. In Jan 2011, the US Congress FDA passed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which gave FDA mandate … Read more
