Complimentary CLE Webinar: BPCIA Update: The 180-day Notice of Commercial Marketing in the Courts

  Complimentary Webinar Register to the Webinar Now Subject: BPCIA Update: The 180-day Notice of Commercial Marketing in the Courts Date/Time: Thursday, April 28 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CST, 10:00 am – 11:00 am PST Featured Panelists: Mark I. Bowditch Mark Bowditch Vice President, Intellectual Property and Litigation…

Cargill, Herbalife, J.M. Smucker, Pepsi, TreeHouse and Unilever gather to benchmark with the FDA, CARU, CFBAI, NAD and many others in Chicago this May at ACI 6th Advance Regulatory and Compliance Summit on Food & Beverage Marketing and Advertising

  NEW YORK – March 21, 2016 – American Conference Institute (ACI) is pleased to announce that some of the Food and Beverage Industry’s largest companies will be sending their senior legal representatives to ACI’s 6th Advanced Regulatory and Compliance Summit on Food & Beverage Marketing and Advertising conference, which will take place at the Omni Chicago on May 10-12,…

Breaking News – Pacira First Amendment Case Settles

Published on Drug and Device Law on December 15, 2015 We learned about it yesterday from a reporter, but were sworn to secrecy until today.  Pacira Pharmaceuticals and the FDA settled their litigation with Pacira getting essentially everything it wanted – what the company calls “favorable resolution.” Pursuant to the settlement agreement, the FDA is formally rescinding its unfortunate warning letter that…

ICMAD Supports The Introduction of The Safe Cosmetics Modernization Act – Nov 19, 2015

Press Release Published by ICMAD on November 19, 2015 The Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and Distributors (ICMAD) association is proud to support legislation introduced today by U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), H.R.4075, The Safe Cosmetics Modernization Act. H.R.4075 modernizes and improves the Food and Drug Administration’s ability to assure the safety of cosmetic products by examining ingredient safety, establishing…

FDA Steps up and forces recall of OxyElite Pro after a death and kidney failure in Hawaii

Expert Guest Entry  by Bill Marler, Originally Posted on MarlerBlog From our good friends at the FDA: Following actions by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a Texas-based company has agreed to recall and destroy a dietary supplement linked to dozens of cases of acute liver failure and hepatitis, including one death and illnesses so severe that several patients…