Updates
Consumer Updates
Use Eye Cosmetics Safely
Whether you’re applying makeup every day, for a special occasion, or for a performance, it’s important to be especially careful around your eyes.
The FDA regulates all cosmetics marketed in the U.S., including mascaras, eye shadows, eye liners, concealers, and eyebrow pencils.
Most eye-area cosmetics generally have not raised safety concerns when used properly. To help you avoid the risk of infection, injury from an applicator, or use of an unapproved color additive, here are tips from the FDA’s Office of Cosmetics and Colors in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN).
Keep Your Dogs and Cats Safe From Holiday Hazards
Happy holidays? Not if your pet gets sick. FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) discusses some unhealthy holiday temptations and how to keep your animals safe.
Stocking Stuffers and Pet Treats
If your dog received a stocking full of pet treats, make sure he doesn’t gobble them all up at once, making them hard to digest. Unchewed pet treats can get stuck in the trachea (windpipe) or gastrointestinal tract (esophagus, stomach, and intestines).
If your dog is in obvious distress from eating too much too fast, contact your vet immediately. Some telltale signs are drooling, choking, or vomiting.
Guidance Documents
Assessing User Fees Under the Over-the-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Program
This guidance provides stakeholders with information regarding FDA’s implementation of the Over-the-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Program under sections 744L and 744M of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act), as added by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (or the CARES Act), which authorize FDA to assess and collect user fees from qualifying manufacturers of over-the-counter (OTC) monograph drugs and requestors of OTC Monograph Order Requests (OMORs), other than OMORs for certain safety changes.
Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs for Treatment Use: Questions and Answers
This guidance provides information for industry, researchers, physicians, institutional review boards (IRBs), and patients about the implementation of FDA’s regulations on expanded access to investigational drugs for treatment use under an investigational new drug application (IND) (21 CFR part 312, subpart I), which went into effect on October 13, 2009. FDA received numerous questions concerning implementation of the regulatory requirements for expanded access.
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ICYMI!
FDA Continues to Advance Medicines for Children
By: Dionna Green, M.D., Director, Office of Pediatric Therapeutics, Lynne Yao, M.D., Director, Division of Pediatrics and Maternal Health, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, and Barbara Buch, M.D., Associate Director for Medicine, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Increasing the availability of safe and effective medicines for children is a key priority for the FDA. Prior to the late 1990s, very few medicines were specifically approved for use in children because of ethical concerns about including children in clinical trials.
This resulted in doctors often using their professional judgement in recommending use of medicines approved for use in adults that had not been reviewed by the FDA for safety and effectiveness in children if he or she believed that the medicine was the best available treatment option for the child.
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Webinars and Virtual Workshops
Joint Public Workshops - Medical Devices for Opioid Use
November 7 - 8, 2022
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Day 2: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM ET
The FDA is announcing two connected public workshops with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) “Diagnostic and Monitoring Medical Devices for Opioid Use” and “Risk Prediction Devices of Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder – Opportunities and Challenges.” The purpose of these workshops is to promote medical device innovation through discussions with stakeholders about important factors to inform the conduct of clinical studies for medical devices to diagnose, monitor, and manage individuals across the spectrum of opioid use.
Patients, caregivers, healthcare providers and other stakeholders will share their perspectives on using opioids, living with opioid use disorder (OUD), and important features of clinical studies for novel devices designed to predict, diagnose, and monitor opioid use disorder as well as prevent overdoses.
You must register separately for each day.
FDA/IMS Joint Workshop: Future of Drug Development in Multiple Myeloma
November 8 - 9, 2022
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The FDA and the International Myeloma Society (IMS) will host a joint symposium, to provide a forum for open discussion among academia, industry, and regulatory agencies about clinical drug development in multiple myeloma. The event will be held in person and online. This workshop will discuss trial design, patient population, and endpoints in the different multiple myeloma disease settings with an aim to advance the future of drug development.
Registration closes today, November 4, 2022 at 5:00 PM ET
FDA/PQRI Workshop on the Regulatory Framework for Distributed and Point of Care Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: An Opportunity for DM/POC Stakeholder Engagement
November 14 - 16, 2022; 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
This FDA/PQRI Workshop will bring together leaders from regulatory agencies, industry, and academia to discuss critical topics in distributed manufacturing and point of care manufacturing.
FDA CBER OTAT Patient-Focused Drug Development Listening Meeting — Patient Perspectives on Gene Therapy Products
November 15, 2022; 12:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET
The FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies (OTAT) is hosting a virtual patient-focused drug development listening meeting to better understand patient perspectives on gene therapy products, including cell-mediated gene therapies. This event is being held to meet an FDA commitment that is part of the seventh authorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA VII).
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