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I know this is a little OT, but to me, keeping an eye on the FDA makes sense for those of us with FA.

This is just a general thread about the FDA.

I'm going to save a few spots for later so I don't have to keep raising this thread.

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sesame seeds labeling: US specific (laws, loopholes)

CSPI Sesame Petition filed!!!

Docket FDA-2008-N-0429 - Advisory Labeling Comments & Info

New exemptions from Food Allergen Labeling

Survey on Thresholds from FARE

Docket Management Process - Draft Proposal 2
http://tinyurl.com/lmqaz9u

HELP! Studies as to X-contam, may contains, etc

FARE Submits Comment to FDA on Preventive Controls

Peanut Threshold Study

food fraud and allergies

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"FDA secretly retests 100 different drugs after testing company admits its work was all fraudulent"
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/15/fda-secretly-retests-100-different-drugs-after-testing-company-admits-its-work-was-all-fraudulent/

--- Quote ---100 drugs, including sophisticated chemotherapy compounds and addictive prescription painkillers, had been approved for sale in the United States at least in part on the strength of Cetero Houston’s tainted tests

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--- Quote ---“If there are problems with the scientific studies, as there have been in this case, then the FDA’s review of those problems needs to be transparent,” said David Kessler, who headed the FDA from 1990 to 1997 and who is now a professor at the University of California at San Francisco. Putting its reviews in public view would let the medical community “understand the basis for the agency’s actions,” he said. “FDA may be right here, but if it wants public confidence, they should be transparent. Otherwise it’s just a black box.”

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Re: If you were an allergy researcher ...

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"Coalition Urges FDA To Improve Transparency in Releasing Data"
http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2013/3/11/coalition-urges-fda-to-improve-transparency-in-releasing-data.aspx

--- Quote ---On Friday, a coalition of public interest groups sent a letter urging FDA to overturn its policy of redacting certain information from federal documents before turning them over to journalists, regulators and others requesting the data, the AP/Washington Post reports.

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http://www.openthegovernment.org/sites/default/files/MinorDeletionsComment.pdf

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"D.C. Circuit Decision May Force FDA and Other Agencies to Expedite Responses to FOIA Requests"
http://www.fdalawblog.net/fda_law_blog_hyman_phelps/2013/04/dc-circuit-decision-may-force-fda-and-other-agencies-to-expedite-responses-to-foia-requests-.html

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"FDA Breaks Food Safety Law With Rule Delays, Judge Finds"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-22/fda-breaks-food-safety-law-with-rule-delays-judge-finds.html

--- Quote ---U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California, said the agency has “admittedly failed to comply with the mandatory rule-making schedule” of the Food Safety and Modernization Act

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"Sequester to reduce FDA food inspections, official says"
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/24/sequester-fda-food-safety-inspections-commissioner/2110503/

--- Quote ---The Food and Drug Administration will conduct fewer food safety inspections this year because of the government sequester

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--- Quote ---delay the agency's implementation of the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act

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"Food Safety Inspections Dodge the Sequester"
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/05/how-food-safety-inspections-dodged-the-impact-of-the-sequester/#.UYq2PRG9KSM

--- Quote ---as FDA figures out how to absorb the $209 million cut to food and drug regulation, the agency is saying food safety inspections will be spared too. FDA will scale back training and travel and not facility inspections

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Former FDA official on GMO labeling: ‘Science doesn’t always win’
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Regulation/Former-FDA-official-on-GMO-labeling-Science-doesn-t-always-win

--- Quote ---Whether the food industry likes it or not, when it comes to GMO labeling, the “train appears to have left the station”, according to former FDA associate commissioner of foods Dr David Acheson.

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"Court Extends Deadline for FSMA Rules"
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/05/court-extends-deadline-for-fsma-rules/

--- Quote ---In a ruling May 17, Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the Oakland U.S. District Court said FDA and CFS now have until June 10 to agree on a schedule for releasing the yet-unpublished food safety rules, mandated by the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011.

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"House Sinks Farm Bill That Could Have Further Delayed FSMA"
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/06/house-sinks-farm-bill-that-could-have-further-delayed-fsma/

--- Quote ---amendment by Rep. Dan Benishek (R-MI) that would have required the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct “a scientific and economic analysis” of FSMA regulations before they can be rolled out.

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--- Quote ---In May, Benishek introduced a separate bill, the Stopping Costly Regulations Against Produce, or the SCRAP Act, which seeks to altogether de-fund the implementation of FSMA produce safety rules.

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