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US FDA Recommendations On Developing Serial COVID-19 Tests Could Accelerate OTC Approval

US FDA Recommendations On Developing Serial COVID-19 Tests Could Accelerate OTC Approval

Source : 'HBW Insight'

The US Food and Drug Administration has made available a development template with recommendations to streamline emergency use authorizations of screening tests for serial COVID-19 testing, which developers can consider...

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Gottlieb: No ‘Plan B’ If Woodcock Isn’t Nominated As US FDA Commissioner

Gottlieb: No ‘Plan B’ If Woodcock Isn’t Nominated As US FDA Commissioner

Source : 'HBW Insight'

Former commissioner Scott Gottlieb doesn’t see a “plan B” for US Food and Drug Administration leadership beyond Janet Woodcock being moved from acting to permanent commissioner.

Gottlieb also expects that enforcing...

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US FDA’s Abernethy Leaves Behind Legacy Of Tech Modernization, Real-World Data

US FDA’s Abernethy Leaves Behind Legacy Of Tech Modernization, Real-World Data

Source : 'HBW Insight'

Amy Abernethy’s decision to leave the US Food and Drug Administration after just more than two years boiled down to two reasons: wanting to see initiatives she helped establish move...

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FTC Familiar With Direct Seller’s COVID-19 Claims Questioned By US Industry Self-Regulation Group

FTC Familiar With Direct Seller’s COVID-19 Claims Questioned By US Industry Self-Regulation Group

Source : 'HBW Insight'

A California health and nutrition product direct seller’s COVID-19-related ad claims that an industry self-regulation group suggests the Federal Trade Commission scrutinize previously had appeared on the agency’s radar.

The BBB...

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US OTC Monograph Facilty Fees Increase With Pandemic-Inspired Sanitizer Makers Exempted

US OTC Monograph Facilty Fees Increase With Pandemic-Inspired Sanitizer Makers Exempted

Source : 'HBW Insight'

Businesses that began making hand sanitizers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic won’t pay US OTC drug monograph program facility fees but firms subject to the requirement will pay $6,000...