Topic: FDA

If Americans ever eat genetically engineered fast-growing salmon, it might be because of a Soviet biologist turned oligarch turned government minister turned fish farming entrepreneur, the New York Times reports.

In a wake of a warning letter sent to them by the FDA, some companies whose pre-workout or weight loss products include the ingredient DMAA, are starting to move on with life without it.

A warning letter written by the Food & Drug Administration last week to ten companies that produce pre-workout supplements with the ingredient dimethylamyamine (DMAA) has sent shockwaves through the industry, not only to the producers of the products but to consumers who have taken them.

U.S. securities regulators on Wednesday finalized long-awaited rules that will dictate which companies dealing in derivatives will be subject to costly capital, margin and business conduct requirements.

U.S. health regulators are asking for advice on whether, and when, heart safety studies should be required for new obesity drugs, possibly adding a new hurdle on their path to approval.

Starbucks will open the first store in its new Evolution Fresh juice bar chain on Monday, its biggest move outside coffee and one it hopes will boost the company's position in the $50 billion health food sector.

PepsiCo said on Monday it was changing its global structure, bringing back a former executive to head its food division in the Americas and creating the new job of president, a role to integrate PepsiCo's sprawling global operations.

The soda makers are making changes to the production of an ingredient in their namesake colas to avoid the need to label the packages with a cancer warning.

Soft drinks from PepsiCo and Coca-Cola posed no health risk, contrary to a watchdog report, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration chemist on Monday was sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to insider trading by using confidential information about drug approvals.

A federal requirement would have begun forcing U.S. tobacco companies to put large graphic images on their cigarette packages, until a judge blocked the ruling Wednesday. 

U.S. health regulators are adding warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor, to say they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss.

Generic drugs are in focus at Generic Pharmaceutical Association's annual meeting in Orlando, Florida. The hot button issue: backlog of generic drug applications at the Food & Drug Administration.

Fears that the U.S. might ban imports of orange juice from Brazil drove orange juice futures to an all-time high on Tuesday as health regulators began testing all incoming shipments for traces of an illegal fungicide called carbendazim.

The drug developer's stock took a hit Thursday, after data was released linking an ingredient in its weight loss treatment to an increased risk of birth defects.