The Administrative State and Cost Benefit Analysis: Who Really Benefits?
In an executive order signed last week, President Obama ordered all government agencies to conduct a cost-benefit analysis before issuing a new regulation and to develop any future regulations in the least-burdensome manner possible and with specific performance...
Pharma Companies Get a Surprise: Food Safety Modernization Act
Pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. might have thought that because the recently enacted Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) enhances food authorities at FDA, that Pharmaceutical manufacturers or importers have escaped unscathed. But this is an unsafe and incorrect...
The Food Safety Modernization Act Becomes Law: What Now?
On January 4, 2011, President Barak Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA). The FSMA is an attempt to increase food safety in the U.S.A.; specifically imported food safety. This begins a...