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FDA shuts down sales of homeopathic shots containing toxic lead, mercury, strychnine
[The FDA cracked down] on four homeopathic companies selling injectable products said to contain highly toxic substances, including lead, mercury, ...
Viewpoint: Without modern, industrial farming, pandemic would have claimed many more lives
In November of 2019 The Atlantic asked "experts" what they would change if they could go back in time. The ...
FDA won’t approve a coronavirus vaccine unless there is ‘clearly demonstrated proof’ it’s effective
[A coronavirus vaccine must] be at least 50% more effective than a placebo in preventing the disease [to be FDA ...
Is the FDA facing political pressure to rush through approval of untested COVID-19 vaccines to fit Trump’s political schedule?
President Donald Trump has promised that there will be a coronavirus vaccine before the year is out. But public health ...
University coalition launches Gene Editing Task Force to advise FDA on animal biotech regulation
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) today announced the ...
Drug factories: GMOs and gene editing are poised to transform medicine. Here’s how.
On the hunt for plant-produced vaccines ...
Podcast: Ban ‘factory farming’? GMO mosquitoes coming this summer; anti-biotech groups aren’t ‘grassroots’
As clinical trials begin of several candidate coronavirus vaccines, a former FDA scientist says the agency could speed up its ...
Viewpoint: The real ‘dirty dozen’? 12 organic foods that could make you sick in 2020
It is that time of year again. The Environmental Working Group put out their annual list of food it considers ...
Abbott expects to ship 90 million coronavirus antibody tests over next two months after FDA grants emergency approval
The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for Abbott Laboratories’ new coronavirus test that detects Covid-19 antibodies.... Abbott ...
USDA, FDA should streamline ‘fragmented’ lab-grown meat regulation, Government Accountability Office finds
General information about the process of making cell-cultured meat—food products grown from the cells of livestock, poultry, and seafood—is available ...
US government launches GMO website, may allow GM crops in some wildlife refuges
While much of the United States government’s recent activity has focused on COVID-19, some agencies are continuing their work in ...
Emergency FDA authorization of remdesivir expected after experimental coronavirus drug shows promise in trial
The F.D.A. plans to announce ... an emergency use authorization for remdesivir, an experimental antiviral drug that is being tested ...
‘A cleaner kill’: Harnessing the body’s immune system to battle cancer
What if your immune system could kill cancers in the same way it does colds and flu? This concept may ...
Can we trust coronavirus antibody tests never reviewed by the FDA?
The Food and Drug Administration, criticized for slowness in authorizing tests to detect coronavirus infections, has taken a strikingly different ...
Will CRISPR spawn a new wave of crop biotech innovation despite regulatory hurdles?
The fact that gene-edited crops can be indistinguishable at the molecular level from those that occur in nature or are ...
FDA has ‘no objections’ to lab-made dairy proteins produced with GMO microbes
Perfect Day, a startup producing milk proteins via microbial fermentation (minus the cows), has secured a coveted ‘no questions/objections’ letter ...
Viewpoint: Excessive animal biotech rules hinder our efforts to battle coronavirus
To help the U.S. better prepare for the future, we need changes to the U.S. animal biotechnology regulatory system. The ...
FDA halts food manufacturing facility inspections to slow coronavirus spread
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to “flatten the curve,” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is halting ...
Viewpoint: Watch out for ‘charlatans and scammers’ touting coronavirus cures
The coronavirus pandemic has the whole world's attention. For now, there's no treatment and definitely no cure for COVID-19, the ...
If the FDA doesn’t say they’re safe, ‘they won’t go to market’: What you should know about GMOs and food safety
Glow-in-the-dark mice, silk-producing goats, venomous cabbage — these are all wacky and downright unsettling examples of what can happen when scientists tinker with ...
Biotech experts, farmers call for updated US gene-edited crop, animal rules at Senate Agriculture Committee hearing
In opening comments during a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on [March 12], ranking member Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) said ...
FDA Feed Your Mind project offers ‘science-based’ answers to questions about GMO safety, regulation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a new education initiative called “Feed Your Mind” to help consumers better ...
Viewpoint: 4 ways the FDA must evolve to deal with fast-moving technologies and health threats
As we look toward the FDA of the 2020s that can achieve further progress in addressing urgent health threats and ...
Podcast: Tackling ethical questions about CRISPR with GLP’s groundbreaking Global Gene Editing Regulation Tracker and Index
To what degree are nations deploying these revolutionary new tools? ...
Impossible Foods touts eco-benefits of its GMO plant-based burger to win over skeptical consumers
Impossible Foods has claimed a spot on the menus of fast-food chains like Restaurant Brands International’s Burger King and White ...
Viewpoint: President Trump should end FDA-USDA turf war over animal gene-editing regulation to foster innovation
In more than two decades, only one biotechnology food animal has been approved for production and sale in the United ...
900 gene therapy drugs are in the pipeline. How does the FDA want to regulate them?
To date, the FDA has approved four gene therapy products, which insert new genetic material into a patient’s cells. The ...
