The FDAImports.com team is pleased to welcome Steven A. Johnson to our team!  Mr. Johnson joins the firm as Principal, bringing nearly 20 years of FDA, Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical Device experience to the firm.  He will be assisting clients with biotech and device compliance, cGMP and GCP issues, Internet and advertising marketing compliance and in other device and pharma-related regulatory areas.  Mr. Johnson will be assisting clients from FDAImports.com’s new office in Irvine, California.  Please join us as we welcome … READ MORE

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been using social media for over a year now and has expanded and built-out its channels to include Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Flickr.  Below are some statistics on the agency’s social media channels and engagement in 2011.  (As of 1.5.2012)   For more on the FDA and social media please read our other related blog, “What Does American Think of the FDA?”

 
Facebook Page
18,346 likes

101 posts in 2011

22 Average comments per post in 2011

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The FDA, like most other government agencies, has moved past its previous reticence and launched fully into the world of social media.  The FDA now has a Facebook page, multiple Twitter accounts, a YouTube channel and Flickr account, linking to each of them from every page on its voluminous website.  The fact that a government agency would embrace social networking tools created by a horde of tech-savvy 20-somethings from California is stunning in and of itself, but … READ MORE

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Pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. might have thought that because the recently enacted Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) enhances food authorities at FDA, that Pharmaceutical manufacturers or importers have escaped unscathed. But this is an unsafe and incorrect assumption. Food is food in FDA’s mind. And at the border FDA tends to think of imported articles in ways to enhance agency power, not to restrict it. So even though the FSMA was passed with a view to increasing food safety, there are areas of concern Pharma companies should watch out for or find themselves … READ MORE

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On January 4, 2011, President Barak Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA). The FSMA is an attempt to increase food safety in the U.S.A.; specifically imported food safety. This begins a series of reviews of this new law and some opinion as to what will work, what will not, and what it will mean to foreign food manufacturers and exporters and U.S. food companies of all kinds.

FIRST: What has changed that matters today; right now?  Not much. Almost nothing in the new amendments will go into effect … READ MORE

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