Questions tagged [fda]
Questions relating to the United States Food and Drug Administration.
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What would happen if the FDA refused to follow the order on mifepristone?
Yesterday a Texas judge said the FDA’s 2000 approval of mifepristone – one of the drugs used to terminate a pregnancy – must be halted.
What would happen if the FDA said they refuse to follow that ...
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What "processing" is necessary when releasing documents for a FOIA request?
The story is online:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants-55-years-process-foia-request-over-vaccine-data-2021-11-18/
Overall it looks like the FDA can process 500 pages per ...
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On what basis was the 2011 HHS override of and FDA decision overruled by a federal judge?
A Politico article on the FDA and its questionable legal independence (from the executive) mentions that:
in 2011, the diminished autonomy of the FDA was made visibly apparent by a clash within the ...
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Can the US President unilaterally override the FDA and approve the COVID vaccine?
According to Politico:
President Donald Trump and his deputies are privately admonishing Food and Drug Administration officials for not moving faster to authorize promising coronavirus vaccines — a ...
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Can the US President override rules issued by the FDA?
President Trump recently tweeted:
New FDA Rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before Election Day. Just another political hit job! @SteveFDA
Is it possible for ...
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FDA Vaccine Approval - has or can the FDA approve multiple vaccines for the same virus?
Currently there are several competing companies that are trying to develop a vaccine for SAR-Cov-2. As each company has said that they are going to engage in at-risk-production if they think that they ...
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Why are some Covid-19 tests excluded in some US states?
For example, the LabCorp COVID-19 RT-PCR has been EUA-approved by the FDA, but it lists as exclusion criteria the following:
Exclusion:
• Live in MD, NJ, NY or RI
meaning that people who live in ...
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