Wednesday, October 1, 2008

the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)


U.S. Food And Drug Administration Selects Applied Biosystems To Provide Mass Spectrometry Instrument Systems For Food ...
PharmaceuticalOnline Wed, 01 Oct 2008 5:10 AM PDT
Applied Biosystems Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has purchased seven of the company's 4000 QTRAP Systems for the analysis of potential harmful pesticides in the U.S. food supply.

US approves test for human and bird flu
AFP via Yahoo! News Wed, 01 Oct 2008 9:02 AM PDT
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new test that can rapidly diagnose and identify human influenza infections and human bird flu, the agency announced.

FDA awards food-feed safety program grants
UPI Wed, 01 Oct 2008 9:46 AM PDT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded 17 grants with a combined value of $5.2 million to enhance state and local food and feed safety programs.

FDA funds 10-year modernization project
UPI Wed, 01 Oct 2008 6:31 AM PDT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has selected 10 contractors to receive up to $2.5 billion to help modernize bioinformatics technology.

New Applied Biosystems test diagnoses flu fast
Reuters via Yahoo! News Tue, 30 Sep 2008 1:44 PM PDT
A fast new genetic flu test from Applied Biosystems Inc and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday.

Melamine found in Chinese milk powder in Thailand
Thailandnews.net Wed, 01 Oct 2008 2:17 AM PDT
Bangkok, Sep 30 : Thailand's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found traces of melamine in 20 tonnes of milk powder imported from China, where at least four children have died from excessive mela...

FDA awards food-feed safety program grants
Moldova.org Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:07 AM PDT
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded 17 grants with a combined value of $5.2 million to enhance state and local food and feed safety programs.The FDA said the grants will fund major cooperative agreements in four major areas: prevention, intervention-monitoring, intervention-defense and rapid response.The grants include creation of the first Rapid Response Team cooperative agreement ...

FDA to spend $2.5B on technology upgrade
AP via Yahoo! Finance Tue, 30 Sep 2008 2:08 PM PDT
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will spend as much as $2.5 billion to upgrade the technology it uses to track the safety of food, drugs and other products.

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The Reader Wed, 01 Oct 2008 8:06 AM PDT
* $3.5 billion. That's how much it would cost the Food and Drug Administration to make one inspection of each of the 250,000 domestic and international food processing facilities responsible for what we eat, according to an article recently published by US News & World Report.

Cervical Dystonia - FDA's First-Cycle Review Of Dysport(R) To Be Completed By Year-End
Medical News Today Wed, 01 Oct 2008 7:07 AM PDT
Ipsen (Paris:IPN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided notification that the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date for Dysport® (botulinum toxin of type A) Biologics License Application (BLA) for the treatment of patients with cervical dystonia has been extended to no later than 28 December 2008.




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