A variety of companies and chemical industry trade groups weighed in last week on a bill to amend the decades-old Toxic Substances Control Act. Severa
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House Hearing on Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), held a hearing la…
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Senate Moves Forward With Compromise Food Safety Act
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U.S. Senate negotiators apparently reached an agreement last week on food safety legislation in order to have it ready for the full Senate to consider…
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IOM Issues Food Safety Report Calling for Reform of FDA
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A report issued last week by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (at the request of Congress) concludes that the FDA is …
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Proposed BPA Ban Undermines Food Safety Bill
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced last week that she would seek to ban the chemical bisphenol-A in food and drink containers as part of an am…
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House Hearing on FDA Progress on Food Safety
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Last week, the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Energy and Commerce Committee, held a hearing to discuss the recent performan…
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Safe Chemicals Bill Introduced in Senate
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Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, D-N.J., chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health, introduced this week the “Safe …
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FDA Official Testifies Before Congress on REMS and Sentinel
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Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Health Subcommittee held a hearing on drug safety. A quick report: Chairman Waxman’s opening comm…
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Update on CPSC Database Issues
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We have posted before about one of the more controversial aspects of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the to-be-created publicly accessibl…
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New Food Safety Article Discusses Future Trends
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From time to time, we have noted the significant litigation that may arise from food recalls. For those readers interested in this area, we flag a rec…
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