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• Trace Levels of Melamine In Formula Called Safe

  Federal health officials have changed their guidance on the health risks of melamine in infant formula, saying trace amounts of the industrial compound alone are not harmful. Posted Nov 28 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, In, of, The Associated Press, China, Food and Drug Administration, Safe, Nestle SA, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Formula, Trace, Called, Mead Johnson & Company, Enfamil Formulas, Melamine, Stephen Sundlof, Levels

• FDA Draws Fire Over Chemicals In Baby Formula

  Public health groups, consumer advocates and members of Congress blasted the Food and Drug Administration yesterday for failing to act after discovering trace amounts of the industrial chemical melamine in baby formula sold in the United States. Posted Nov 26 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, In, Rosa DeLauro, Over, Fire, The Associated Press, Consumers Union of U.S. Inc., Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Working Group, Bart Stupak, Baby, FDA, Nestle SA, Chemicals, Formula, Draws, Judy Leon, Jean Halloran, Ken Cook, Gail Wood, Mead Johnson & Company, Sonya Lunder, Enfamil Formulas

• Ailing FDA May Need Major Restructuring

  The Obama administration will inherit a Food and Drug Administration widely seen as struggling to protect Americans from unsafe medication, contaminated food and a flood of questionable imports from China and other countries. Posted Nov 25 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, China, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Food and Drug Administration, May, Consumer Federation of America, Avandia, Need, Vioxx, FDA, Major, Restructuring, Ailing, Christopher Waldrop, Plan B Contraceptive, David Ross, Carl R. Nielsen, William K. Hubbard, Mark B. McClellan, Jane E. Henney, David A. Kessler

• Obama Could Reverse Erosion of Federal Service by Restoring Funding and Reducing Political Appointees

  As The Washington Post reported this week, President-elect Barack Obama wrote American Federation of Government Employees in October promising that he would do everything in his power to rebuild the federal service. He also promised to protect collective bargaining rights and to restore funding c... Posted Nov 18 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, George W. Bush, of, The Washington Post Company, and, by, George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, Political, Obama, Al Gore, Internal Revenue Service, Food and Drug Administration, Federal, Service, Social Security Administration, Could, U.S. Department of Defense, Paul C. Light, New York University, American Federation of Government Employees, Funding, Restoring, Reverse, Appointees, Veterans Benefits Administration, Robert F. Wagner School, Reducing, Erosion

• Obama Urged to Revitalize a Frustrated Federal Workforce

  When President Obama takes over in January as manager in chief of nearly 2 million federal employees, he will need a plan to reinvigorate a frustrated and demoralized workforce, career employees warn. Posted Nov 16 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: to, U.S. Small Business Administration, A, The White House, Tony Fratto, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Justice, Barack Obama, Obama, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal, IBM Center for the Business of Government, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, National Park Service, Workforce, Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Charles Gordon, Frustrated, Jeff Ruch, John Kamensky, Urged, Revitalize, Frank Buono

• U.S. Blocks Chinese Milk Products

  Federal food safety officials yesterday began holding up shipments of food from China that contain milk or milk-derived ingredients in the largest effort to date to keep products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine from reaching U.S. consumers. Posted Nov 13 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, New Zealand, United States, U.S., Rosa DeLauro, China, South Korea, Food and Drug Administration, Canada, Spain, Yemen, Singapore, Chinese, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Caroline Smith DeWaal, Products, Michael Leavitt, Milk, Andrew von Eschenbach, Steve Solomon, Blocks

• Democrats Eye Bush Midnight Regulations

  As President-elect Barack Obama's transition team prepares for the Jan. 20 inauguration, it is tracking the "midnight" regulations being churned out in the final days of the Bush administration. Posted Nov 10 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Bush, The White House, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Government Accountability Office, George W. Bush, California, Medicaid, Bloomberg LP, Barack Obama, Food and Drug Administration, Nancy Pelosi, Democrats, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Cindy Skrzycki, Eye, American Association for Justice, Susan Dudley, Joshua Bolten, New York University School of Law, Regulations, Andrew Card, Midnight, Randel Johnson, Gerie Voss, Nadeam Elshami, Matt Madia

• High Court Case Looms Large for Drugmakers

  Diana Levine went to a medical clinic with a severe migraine headache. She wound up with gangrene and an amputated forearm, the victim of a rare side effect from a popular anti-nausea drug. Posted Nov 03 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: for, Food and Drug Administration, Vermont, Court, Case, Vioxx, Henry Waxman, High, Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Large, Anthony Kennedy, Looms, Drugmakers, Phenergan, Demerol, Diana Levine

• FDA Panel Accepts Findings On BPA

  The Food and Drug Administration made mistakes when determining that a widely used chemical found in baby bottles and other plastics was harmless and the agency should redo its risk assessment, an FDA advisory panel ruled yesterday. Posted Oct 31 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Gaithersburg, on, University of Michigan, Atlanta, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Journal of the American Medical Association, Canada, panel, Environmental Working Group, BPA, American Plastics Council, FDA, Martin Philbert, Science Board, Accepts, International Formula Council, John Rost, Judy Leon, Mardi Mountford, North American Metal Packaging Manufacturing Association, Andrew von Eschenbach, Findings

• Biotechs Race for New Vaccine

  Developing a next-generation anthrax vaccine is not for the weak of heart -- or wallet. Just two years ago, a revoked federal contract for a purportedly new and improved vaccine left a California biotech in ruins. Posted Oct 05 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: United States, United Kingdom, for, New, California, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., India, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Michigan, Race, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, San Diego, Rockville, Annapolis (Maryland), PharmAthene Inc., Emergent BioSolutions Inc., Vaccine, WBB Securities LLC, South San Francisco, VaxGen Inc., Michael Kurilla, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Avecia Ltd., Stephen G. Brozak, BioThrax, Robin Robinson, HHS Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency, David P. Wright, Biotechs, Office of Biodefense Research

• Lawmakers Rebuke FDA End Run on PR Contract

  Two lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday blasted a Food and Drug Administration contract for a public relations campaign, calling it a "reckless use of taxpayer dollars" and requesting documents from the officials and business executives involved. Posted Oct 02 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, on, The Washington Post Company, Bill Clinton, John Dingell, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Food and Drug Administration, Reston, End, Contract, Bart Stupak, Lawmakers, FDA, Run, PR, Don Goldberg, Alaska Newspapers Inc., Rebuke, Michael Leavitt, Calista Corp.

• FDA Takes End Run to Award Contract to PR Firm

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had an image problem. For months last year the agency had been pummeled by Congress for poor inspections of tainted vegetables, drugs and other products. Posted Oct 01 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, to, Takes, The Washington Post Company, The George Washington University, Bill Clinton, John Dingell, Food and Drug Administration, Capitol Hill, U.S. Department of Defense, Firm, End, Contract, FEMA, Alaska, FDA, Run, Qorvis Communications LLC, Award, The Army National Guard, Lucy Shackelford, Jane Peterson, Aaron Guiterman, James Dunn, PR, Luna Innovations, Steven Schooner, John Dyer, Don Goldberg, Mildred Cooper, Alaska Newspapers Inc., One FDA

• China's Tainted-Milk Crisis Grows Despite Official Claims

  BEIJING -- Like thousands of other parents, Gu Yinghua took his child to the kidney unit of a local children's hospital for free testing as China's tainted-milk scandal continued to widen. Posted Sep 27 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Crisis, Hong Kong, European Union, United Kingdom, Europe, China, Asia, Beijing, Japan, Shanghai, Food and Drug Administration, Claims, Despite, Zhang Jie, World Health Organization, Jian, Official, China's, Grows, Guangzhou, Tainted-Milk, Hebei Province, Sanlu Group Co. Ltd., Jorgen Schlundt, Li Changjiang, Chen Yanhui, Du Qunjun, Sanyuan Dairy Co., Sanlu Dairy Co., General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine

• Rules on Bioengineered Animals

  The Food and Drug Administration will release today long-awaited regulatory guidelines governing genetic engineering of animals for food, drugs or medical devices. Posted Sep 17 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, on, Rules, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Consumers Union of U.S. Inc., Food and Drug Administration, Wyoming, Animals, Union of Concerned Scientists, Margaret Mellon, Ontario, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Bioengineered, Biotechnology Industry Organization, Barbara Glenn, Gregory Jaffe, Eric Flamm, Michael Hansen

• McCain Embraces Regulation After Many Years of Opposition

  A decade ago, Sen. John McCain embraced legislation to broadly deregulate the banking and insurance industries, helping to sweep aside a thicket of rules established over decades in favor of a less restricted financial marketplace that proponents said would result in greater economic growth. Posted Sep 16 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, After, Texas, George W. Bush, of, Lehman Brothers Inc., Enron Corporation, The Wall Street Journal, John McCain, Barack Obama, McCain, Food and Drug Administration, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Tampa, Regulation, Colorado, Phil Gramm, Opposition, Years, Alice Crites, Many, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, Anne E. Kornblut, American International Group Inc., Robert Barnes, Colorado School of Mines, Embraces