On September 7, 2011, the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal upheld a lower court ruling that law enforcement did not violate the Fourth Amendment by using “real time” cell […]
The Internal Revenue Service has announced that it has eliminated the two-year limit for filing innocent spouse claims under IRC §6015(f), giving spouses of those accused of tax evasion more […]
On August 31, 2011, the U.S. Department of Commerces Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced its publication of a new set of best practices, aimed at curbing the practice […]
On September 1, 2011, researchers announced that they may have discovered what may become a new option for blood transfusions. Appearing in this months issue of the journal Blood, found […]
On August 30, 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a press release notifying the public that a fraudulent organic certificate had been disseminated. The press release, found here, […]
This September the University of Miamis Tissue Bank will be relocating to a new $11.5 million facility. Moving from its current building to what is envisioned as a multi-enterprise commercial […]
On September 1, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance for tablet scoring, see FDA Guidance for Industry Tablet Scoring: Nomenclature, Labeling, and Data for Evaluation. This draft guidance provides recommendations regarding “guidelines to follow, data to provide, and criteria to meet and detail in an application to approve a scored tablet,” as well as nomenclature and labeling for approved scored tablets. This draft guidance applies only to sponsors of new drug applications (NDAs) and abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs). These guidelines are optional for currently marketed drug products.
On August 29, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in a divided decision, overturned a $602,000 sanction and public reprimand of federal prosecutors for prosecutorial […]
On August 29, 2011, Del Monte began taking steps to sue the State of Oregon’s Public Health Authority (PHA) and one of its senior officials. After suing the FDA last week, the company filed a notice to sue letter, alerting the State that it will be pursuing legal action in relation to allegations of tainted cantaloupes. According to Del Monte, Oregon’s PHA and its officials had insufficient evidence to link Del Monte cantaloupes to an outbreak of Salmonella Panama.
On August 25, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Import Alert aimed at stopping the introduction of contaminated papaya from entering the country. As announced here, the FDA and its Mexican counterparts have been closely monitoring the salmonella contamination that has been linked to papaya grown in Mexico.
