Compliance, Environmental Regulation 7 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, energy, clean water act, yuba county, water quality, certification
Regulatory Compliance, Industry Standards 7 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, fda, plant-based alternatives, food labeling, animal-derived foods

🌱FDA Guidance on Plant-Based Food Labeling and Compliance

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Labeling of Plant-Based Alternatives to Animal-Derived Foods." This draft guidance, when finalized, will provide our recommendations on best practices for naming and labeling of certain plant-based foods that are marketed and sold as alternatives for animal-derived foods (plant-based alternative foods), especially in the absence of a common or usual name for the product. This draft guidance does not address the naming and labeling of plant-based milk alternatives; FDA is providing recommendations regarding these products in a separate guidance document.

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Compliance, Regulatory 7 Jan 2025 compliance, healthcare, regulation, fda, bulk drug substances, outsourcing facilities

🏥FDA Issues Interim Guidance on Compounding Bulk Drug Substances

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of a final guidance for industry entitled "Interim Policy on Compounding Using Bulk Drug Substances Under Section 503B of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act." This guidance describes FDA's interim regulatory policy concerning compounding by outsourcing facilities using bulk drug substances while FDA develops the list of bulk drug substances that outsourcing facilities can use in compounding under the applicable section of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). This guidance finalizes the draft guidance of the same title issued in December 2023 and replaces the final guidance of the same title issued in January 2017.

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Grant Opportunities, Professional Events 7 Jan 2025 grant opportunities, nih, health, public health, infectious diseases, contract proposals
Regulatory Compliance, Marketing Strategy 7 Jan 2025 compliance, health care, fda, communication regulations, medical products

🏥FDA Guidance on Unapproved Medical Product Communications

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of a final guidance for industry entitled "Communications From Firms to Health Care Providers Regarding Scientific Information on Unapproved Uses of Approved/Cleared Medical Products: Questions and Answers." This guidance describes FDA's enforcement policy regarding certain firm-initiated communications of scientific information on unapproved use(s) of the firm's approved/ cleared medical products to health care providers (HCPs) engaged in prescribing or administering medical products to individual patients. This guidance finalizes the revised draft guidance of the same title issued in October 2023. The October 2023 revised draft guidance revised and replaced the draft guidance entitled "Distributing Scientific and Medical Publications on Unapproved New Uses--Recommended Practices," issued in March 2014, which itself revised the final guidance entitled "Good Reprint Practices for the Distribution of Medical Journal Articles and Medical or Scientific Reference Publications on Unapproved New Uses of Approved Drugs and Approved or Cleared Medical Devices," issued in January 2009. This guidance is not for current implementation, pending the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) decision on the collection of information.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 7 Jan 2025 regulatory compliance, department of energy, federal energy regulatory commission, off-the-record communications, business communication
Grants, Compliance, Economic Development 7 Jan 2025 nih, health research, federal funding, business collaboration, organizational change

🏥NIH Restructuring Offers New Opportunities for Businesses in Health Research

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us Research Program has modified their organizational structure. The new organizational structure was approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on December 19, 2024.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 7 Jan 2025 regulation, fda, food safety, food allergens, labeling requirements

🏷️FDA Guidance on Food Allergens and Labeling Requirements

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing the availability of a revised final guidance for industry entitled "Questions and Answers Regarding Food Allergens, Including the Food Allergen Labeling Requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Edition 5): Guidance for Industry." The guidance explains FDA's current thinking on a number of issues related to the labeling of food allergens, including requirements in the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (FALCPA) and the Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education, and Research Act of 2021 (FASTER Act).

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Compliance, Regulatory Guidance 7 Jan 2025 compliance, healthcare, fda, drug regulation, artificial intelligence

🤖FDA Draft Guidance on AI Use in Drug Regulation Available for Comments

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Considerations for the Use of Artificial Intelligence To Support Regulatory Decision-Making for Drug and Biological Products." In accordance with its mission of protecting, promoting, and advancing public health, FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), in collaboration with the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), the Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE), the Office of Combination Products (OCP), and the Office of Inspections and Investigations (OII), is issuing this draft guidance to provide recommendations to industry on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to produce information or data intended to support regulatory decision-making regarding the safety, effectiveness, or quality for drug and biological products.

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Regulatory Requirements, Economic Development 7 Jan 2025 business operations, postal service, negotiated service agreements, shipping, contract changes

📦Notice of Priority Mail and USPS Ground Advantage Changes

The Postal Service gives notice of filing a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission to add a domestic shipping services contract to the list of Negotiated Service Agreements in the Mail Classification Schedule's Competitive Products List.

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