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Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., and Janet Woodcock, M.D., director of the Cent

# FDA

# Scott Gottlieb

# Janet Woodcock

Millions of Americans take medication daily to control their blood pressure. We recently found that some generic versions of one medication, valsartan, contain an impurity that doesn’t meet FDA’s safety standards.

2018-08-31 · fda

Costa Rica Coffee Research Institute and Starbucks to Explore New Disease-Resistant Coffee Varieties

# Starbucks

# Costa Rica

# Icafé

Costa Rica reported that Icafé and Starbucks on March 8 had signed an agreement to evaluate five coffee genotypes over the next four years to determine their yield, volume-weight conversion ratio and disease resistance.

2019-03-12 · foodmate

La FDA ayuda a facilitar el comercio entre los socios comerciales estadounidenses y extranjeros con

# FDA

# socios comerciales

# alimentos

La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de los Estados Unidos (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) anunció el día de hoy su nuevo programa de certificación de exportaciones para ciertos alimentos controlados por la dependencia, así como las tasas que imp

2018-09-03 · fda

District Court orders permanent injunction against companies selling sexual enhancement products con

# U.S.

# District Court

# drugs

The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey entered an order of permanent injunction against S Hackett Marketing LLC doing business as Just Enhance; R Thomas Marketing LLC; Shawn Hackett, president and owner of Just Enhance; and Roger Thomas, p

2018-08-31 · fda

Senate confirms Scott Gottlieb as FDA commissioner

# FDA

# Scott Gottlieb

Scott Gottlieb was confirmed Tuesday by the Senate as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with a vote of 57-42.

2017-05-10 · foodsafetynews

Consumers complain; 21 tons of undercooked chicken recalled

# chicken

# consumers

Just over 21 tons of ready-to-eat chicken breasts were recalled nationwide late Monday by WFSP Foods LLC in Decatur, AL, because they were undercooked and could be contaminated with bacterial pathogens, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Fo

2017-04-25 · foodsafetynews

Closer cooperation needed on food colour regulations between EU and US

# food colour

# cooperation

New study suggests that EU and the US companies and consumers have much to gain from closer cooperation on food colouring.

2017-04-17 · newfoodmagazine

The recommended national standard of "Classification and Judgment of TCM Constitution" was formally implemented.

# TCM Constitution

# Classification Method

# National Standard

# Health Assessment

# Traditional Medicine

# Medical Regulation

On April 1, the recommended national standard "Classification and Determination of TCM Constitution" (GB/T 46939-2025) was officially implemented with the approval of the General Administration of Market Supervision (National Standards Committee). Since the 1970 s, the team of Professor Wang Qi, a tenured professor at Beijing University of traditional Chinese Medicine, has divided Chinese people into nine basic physique types. For a long time, this theory has been mainly applied to clinical syndrome differentiation and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, and its application in the field of public health management and product development is relatively limited. The formal implementation of this national standard marks the broader industrial application of this theory, and provides a scientific basis and operation for the precise development of medicine and food homologous products.

2026-04-07 ·

"Determination of Chondroitin Sulfate in Health Food" National Standard for Public Comments

# Chondroitin

# Health Food

# National Standard

# Public Comment

# Testing Method

# Quality Control

On April 1, the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration issued a notice. Under the guidance of the State Administration of Market Supervision, the draft national standard ''Determination of Chondroitin Sulfate in Health Foods'' proposed and centralized by the National Special Food Standardization Technical Committee was publicly solicited on the national standard information public service platform for comments, and the comments were solicited as of May 29. After the approval and release of the standard, the determination process and technical requirements of chondroitin sulfate will be standardized.

2026-04-07 ·

Rise in consumer food complaints noted by FSA

# food

# FSA

# consumer

The number of public complaints about food and food sites spanning three countries has increased, according to a report published by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).

2020-12-01 · foodsafetynews