By Debra Rade on May 5, 2015
There is a new website in town relevant to all medical devices called AccessGUDID. You decide if it is a catchy, memorable name or not. Just think, you would like to Access the Global Unique Device Identification Database, but that’s not enough as its own identifier isn’t so easy. http://accessgudid.nlm.nih.gov/ Wouldn’t it have been […]
Posted in Corporate Governance, Policies & Compliance, General Counsel & Corporate, Product Safety & Regulatory | Tagged AccessGUDID, Class I, Class II, Class III, FDA, Global Harmonisation Task Force, Global Unique Device Indentification Database, implantable, medical device, NIH, NIHNLM, UDI, Unique Device Indentifier
By Debra Rade on December 10, 2014
With many friends who have delivered babies recently or who have been blessed with new grandchildren, it seems a good idea to share this news release from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today. Ironically, a great number of baby wipes are being recalled because of contamination before they’ve been used on your baby’s […]
Posted in Corporate Governance, Policies & Compliance, General Counsel & Corporate, Product Safety & Regulatory | Tagged B. cepacia, baby, baby wipes, cpsc, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Nutek, product safety, recall, safety
By Debra Rade on May 21, 2014
According to a HuffPost Taste post last year, there are at least 21 ways to make a better hummus, and a chickpea has not been waived past many of them. However, relying on our federal government for only the most vital and fundamental services, Sabra Dipping Co. (Sabra) has filed a Citizen Petition with the […]
Posted in Corporate Governance, Policies & Compliance, General Counsel & Corporate, Product Safety & Regulatory | Tagged #anticompetitive, #antitrust, Citizen Petition, FDA, food standards, hummus, Noerr-Pennington, PepsiCo, standards, standards development, Strauss-Group, tahini