Food And Drug Administration
Recent News About Food And Drug Administration
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Will RFK's FDA create windfalls for trial lawyers?
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Trial lawyers are poised to cash in on product-liability class actions with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the Food and Drug Administration. -
'Consumer confusion': FDA rebukes acne med findings of one of plaintiff lawyers' favorite labs
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - It could've been the next pot of gold for plaintiff lawyers, but the Food and Drug Administration says it's bogus. -
Lawsuit targets breakfast bars from Target
ORLANDO, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Class action lawyers are concerning themselves with the apple filling in breakfast bars sold at Target. -
Lawyers, guns and money: The anatomy of a mass tort
Tens of thousands of lawsuits have their origins in a man once arrested after firing a gun into the ceiling of his Yale University frat house and threatening a visitor, resulting in police discovering an illegal arsenal of weapons and explosives that earned him a one-year prison sentence. -
FDA: Sterilization plants needed to boost PPE supply vs COVID; activists question, resist call to reopen plants
Anti-EtO sterilization groups in IL, GA, oppose FDA's call to reopen medical sterilization plants closed last year, which FDA says are needed to help fight COVID-19 -
Plaintiff lawyers and their experts push FDA panel to expand definition of asbestos; Pills, chewing gum among products possibly affected
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A fierce behind-the-scenes conflict is growing as law firms that specialize in asbestos litigation urge the Food and Drug Administration to broaden the definition of mineral particles believed to cause disease while industry representatives try to make it narrower. -
Maker of cholesterol drug escapes shareholder lawsuit over stock drop
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Delaware’s Chancery Court has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit that alleged executives and board members of Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. misled investors about the development of a new drug to treat high cholesterol.