Archive for August, 2009

FDA halts marketing of topical ibuprofen products

Noting that topical ibuprofen drugs are not included in any OTC monograph or the subject of any approved NDA, the FDA has issued warning letters (click hyperlink to FDA warning letter) to eight manufacturers/distributors.  This action is continuing good news to DESI producers who worry that getting an NDA may not cause FDA to remove non-NDA [...]

FDA requests melamine testing of ingredients

U. S. government officials both inside and outside of FDA have acknowledged that the Agency currently lacks the resources, both financial and human, to adequately monitor the materials going into products being used in the United States.  The answer?  In the case of the somewhat notorious contaminant melamine, the answer is to make regulated industry [...]