The FDA Keeps Us Guessing About the Scope of Its E-Cigarette Regulations
Are nicotine-free e-liquids covered? Maybe. What about synthetic nicotine? Dunno.
Are nicotine-free e-liquids covered? Maybe. What about synthetic nicotine? Dunno.
The FDA is extending the meaning of the Tobacco Control Act to cover cigars, pipe tobacco, and even pipes.
Deeming rules about vaping that go into effect August 2018 would have several unintended consequences
What happens when a food's link to salmonella is proven false? Nothing.
Massachusetts and California lead the way in restricting access and use of e-cigarettes.
Jim O'Neill condemned by Gizmodo as "insane" for believing in regulatory techniques that can speed life-saving medicines to market
Q&A with "A Billion Lives" director Aaron Biebert.
Treat people as individuals not just as members of an undifferentiated public health herd
Banned in 1985, the "empathogen" could be legally available as a psychotherapeutic catalyst as soon as 2021.
Should we expect a scaling back of regulations or even repeals?
"Food Freedom" advocate Baylen Linnekin says fewer, smarter laws would make our food system more sustainable.
I don't want to have a "conversation" with regulators; I want them to get the hell out of the way
The DEA's backtracking underlines the arbitrariness of the government's pharmacological taboos.
Some things won't change no matter who wins the 2016 election.
Due to FDA ban parents must resort to treatments abroad in order to have a healthy baby
Terminally ill patients in Golden State will now be able to legally use medicines not yet out of the FDA's approval process that might help them.
The agency relies on "close-hold embargoes" to restrict reporters from contacting outside sources about FDA stories.
According to state regulators, skim milk = skim milk + mandated additives.
Drug company Mylan is able to charge monopoly prices due to government regulation, not free-market forces.
A new study makes the CDC's equation of vaping with tobacco use look even more ridiculous.
Capitalism isn't to blame. It's the exact opposite.
With NIDA as the only legal source of cannabis for research, meeting FDA requirements was impossible.
Our food supply is safe, say 66 percent of Americans. And data backs them up.
Manufacturers will have to guess which circumstances those are, because the FDA won't say.
Bill by Sens. Feinstein, Collins would give FDA more authority over cosmetics than it has over food.
The new rules will discourage smokers from switching to vaping, a much less dangerous alternative.
New rules will dramatically reduce competition, variety, and innovation, retarding the replacement of smoking with a much safer alternative.
New regs took affect on Monday and could be too costly for small companies to compete with Big Tobacco.
Just as Zika virus breaks out in Florida - coincidence?
Is the foolish campaign against energy drinks fizzling out?
Two companies try to dodge onerous rules with a system that delivers only synthetic nicotine.
If the FDA will let them, they could do the same thing here when Zika arrives
The mandatory 'added sugar' disclosure is a misleading loser.
Farm subsides, GMO responses, and regulatory overreach should prompt some discussion.
The FDA is suppressing potentially lifesaving information about the health advantages of e-cigarettes.
Let consumers, advocates, and courts decide.
Regulators won't let manufacturers of vaping hardware and e-liquids tell their customers the truth.
The agency's new rules threaten products that offer a much safer alternative to smoking.
Vascular Solutions CEO Howard Root faced years of jail time in a legal battle over off-label use that has profound implications for medical innovation in America.
499 pages of new regulation threaten to crush manufacturers.
The market for cigars is about to become a lot less diverse and a lot more boring.
Meanwhile FDA bows to anti-biotech activist fears and won't expedite approval of proven technology
The agency's final rule leaves conventional cigarettes on the market while requiring much safer alternatives to meet prohibitive requirements.
The reported version of an appropriations bill would change a crucial cutoff date.