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Jonathan Emord appeared on George Noory’s Coast-to-Coast AM program on December 13, 2011 to discuss the Transportation Administration’s (TSA) misguided approach to security screening. He explained that the agency spent $57 billion in the past 10 years and maintains 65,000 employees, [...]
On November 3, 2011 Jonathan Emord was John Stossel’s guest on the FOX Business Channel’s Stossel Show. Emord discussed the FDA’s regulation of mobile medical apps. Click here to the read John Stossel’s article following Emord’s appearance.
For further information, please read Jonathan Emord’s article at NewsWithViews.com, posted November 14, [...]
On Wednesday the Thomas More Law Center filed its petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court seeking review of the controversial Health Care reform law. The full petition can be read here. At least twenty cases across the country challenged the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [...]
Britain’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) recently banned airbrushed magazine advertisements for L’Oreal brand cosmetics that featured actress Julia Roberts. As reported by CNN here, the agency concluded that the technique of air-brushing misled consumers by exaggerating the products’ abilities to cover lines, wrinkles and blemishes. Britain’s ASA (a self-regulatory organization) is the functional [...]
FDA released on July 5th the highly anticipated Draft Guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDIs). The guidance document was intended to assist companies in determining when a 75-day premarket notification is required for dietary ingredients not “grandfathered” under the DSHEA. We previously announced the publication of this guidance
FDA’s interpretation of 21 U.S.C. § 350b limits “grandfathered” dietary ingredients to those marketed in the United States before October 1994. The FDA has focused 21 U.S.C. 350b(c) narrowly, concluding that the statutory language does not extend to include components or articles of food that were not specifically marketed. For example, in 2009, the FDA [...]
The FDA published on Monday, June 27, 2011 two guidance documents concerning the regulation of medical devices. See Classification of Products as Drugs and Devices and Additional Product Classification Issues; Interpretation of the Term “Chemical Action” in the Definition of Device Under Section 201(h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic [...]
The FSMA prohibits the manufacture of organic and dairy based foods without a license (a registration) from the FDA. It requires FDA to hire over 16,000 new federal agents to inspect food facilities. It authorizes FDA to revoke registrations if it thinks there is a reasonable possibility that a food could cause injury without need for proof [...]
Congress is mulling amendments to the Federal Trade Commission Act that, if enacted, could significantly increase the FTC’s authority to censor commercial speech. Henry Waxman, through his Energy and Commerce Committee, proposed amendments (styled “improvements”) to the FTCA that seek to expand the FTC’s enforcement and rulemaking power. House Bill 4173 expressly repeals the rulemaking provisions of [...]
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ANH Comment: FDA NDI Guidance Imposes Substantial Economic Burdens
On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, Emord & Associates filed comments with the FDA and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) concerning the FDA’s proposed collection of information through 75-day New Dietary Ingredient notifications. We previously reported on the FDA’s proposed New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) guidance here and here.
Federal agencies frequently collect information [...]