Day: November 8, 2018

A review of FDA’s webpage listing available Guidance Documents shows that in the last two years, the total number of available documents is steadily decreasing. This despite FDA having a full roster of new guidance documents being created and released. A screenshot in Oct 2017 showed 3164 active Guidance Documents on FDA’s website; a similar … Read more

Earlier this year, there was a major episode of pathogenic E. Coli contamination of lettuce grown in Yuma County, Arizona that led to hundreds of infections reported in about 36 states, and 5 deaths. FDA created an Environmental Assessment (EA) Team including members from the CDC, and local agricultural experts and found that the infections … Read more