“Food and Drug Administration” on The Daily Caller

Once again, counterfeit vials of a cancer drug have surfaced in the U.S., according to CBS News. The Food and Drug Administration has issued warnings to health care professionals that fake vials of the drug Altuzan were brought into the U.S. by British companies, after being purchased from wholesalers in Turkey. (more)

A federal judge’s ruling that blocks the importation of sodium thiopental, a drug used in executions, means that states have to rely on increasingly scarce substitute drugs, according to iWatch News. (more)

The White House isn’t giving up on plans to force cigarette companies to print gruesome images on their own cigarette packets, even after a D.C.-based federal judge shot down the plan as an “impermissible expropriation of a company’s advertising space for government advocacy.” (more)

A North Carolina elementary school forced a preschool student to eat cafeteria chicken nuggets for lunch on Jan. 30 after officials reportedly determined that her homemade meal wasn’t up to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s standards for healthfulness, according to a report from the Carolina Journal. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Current and former Food and Drug Administration officials say in a lawsuit that the agency secretly monitored their private email after they raised concerns that approved medical devices might risk public safety. (more)

Government regulators and their enablers in Congress, always on the prowl to target industries for ever-more oppressive regulations and higher taxes, are now focusing on the venerable “good cigar” eloquently extolled by Rudyard Kipling and many other connoisseurs of a “good smoke.” (more)

TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) — The widening quality problems at health giant Johnson & Johnson have former regulators and analysts mystified, as yet another J&J business — at least the seventh — has come under scrutiny. (more)

SILVER SPRING, Md., Dec. 30, 2011 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Prevnar 13, a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, was approved today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for people ages 50 years and older to prevent pneumonia and invasive disease caused by the bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae. (more)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Federal inspectors say the contract manufacturer for Johnson & Johnson’s cancer drug Doxil hasn’t been maintaining equipment or promptly investigating defective product batches and other serious problems at its Bedford, Ohio, factory. (more)

On Thursday President Barack Obama defended his administration’s 11th-hour decision to keep in place an age restriction on the sale of the “morning after” birth control pill. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government delivered a blow to some desperate patients Friday as it ruled the blockbuster drug Avastin should no longer be used to treat advanced breast cancer. (more)

Most people are familiar with the adage, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” but more relevant in today’s world, and certainly more accurate, is the reality that, “Hell hath no fury like a nanny-stater scorned.” (more)

The FDA’s new graphic warning labels for tobacco products showing diseased lungs, rotten teeth and dead bodies may violate the First Amendment, a federal judge has ruled. (more)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The first combination pill for the millions of people with the dangerous combination of diabetes and high cholesterol won U.S. approval Friday, offering convenience — and savings — to patients taking multiple pills. (more)

There are two things that will make finger-wagging food cops go ballistic: sugar and salt. They may not use unnecessary force if you violate their food “laws,” but they do create unnecessary hysteria and, even worse, unnecessary regulation. (more)

Over the past decade, the continued loss of middle-class jobs has stoked anxiety and shattered dreams of many Americans. Factors largely outside of policymakers’ control — like globalization’s spread and technology-based efficiency gains — contribute to some of today’s anemic employment conditions. (more)

Four of the nation’s largest cigarette manufacturers are suing the federal government for what they say is a violation of their First Amendment rights. (more)

A yearlong sting operation involving a multitude of state and federal agencies brought to justice Wednesday a dangerous ring of raw dairy enthusiasts in California. (more)

The war against smokers continued in full force Tuesday afternoon with the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) unveiling nine graphic health warnings that will be required to be on every pack of cigarettes sold in the United States no later than September 2012. (more)

Giving acetaminophen to young children is not as straightforward as parents might think, or hope. So on Tuesday and Wednesday, federal officials will weigh whether to add new dosing information to Tylenol and other over-the-counter acetaminophen medications. (more)