The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and ...

“We want to focus on food. People forget that the ‘F’ in FDA stands for food,” Makary said. Makary noted that the processed ...

News about Food and Drug Administration, ... The states consider it a move to force the F.D.A. to review and acknowledge extensive research showing the pill’s safety. By Pam Belluck .

Maintaining the safety of our food 07:51. The Food and Drug Administration is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials ...

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said he plans to review the safety of abortion drug mifepristone after a recent study raised concerns about medical side effects. Health News ...

But, it wasn't until 1930 that the name, the Food and Drug Administration, was officially adopted. The agency is part of the Department of Health and Human Services and has more than 18,000 ...

The Food and Drug Administration is limiting the number of Americans who can get an annual COVID-19 vaccine shot. Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University ...

A consumer advocate named Harvey W. Wiley started the FDA in 1906, through the Pure Food and Drug Act, in part a response to the snake oil problem. Wiley also had a passion for food safety.

Christina Jewett covers the Food and Drug Administration, which means keeping a close eye on drugs, medical devices, food safety and tobacco policy. See more on: U.S. Politics , Food and Drug ...

Several organizations filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration to challenge a final rule issued by the agency on August 17, 2016, regarding the use of substances in food that are ...

The Trump administration’s effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached the Food and Drug Administration this weekend, as recently hired employees who review the safety of food ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says consumers should avoid eating shellfish from Oregon and Washington state as they may be contaminated with toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning ...