Tag: #FDA
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Consumer Products Ingredient Disclosure Laws
It is important to know about the products that you wish to buy or use and particularly their ingredients in a consumer products supply chain. Product Right to Know (PRTK) Act is important and was signed into law in the state of California in 2017 for the cleaning products to disclose the information on both…
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US lab unveils portable 5-minute COVID-19 test
Washington, March 28 (AFP/APP): A US-based lab has unveiled a portable test that can tell if someone has COVID-19 in as little as five minutes, it said in a statement Friday. Abbot Laboratories said the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had given it emergency authorization to begin making the test available to healthcare providers…
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FDA facilitating use of blood plasma treatment for critically-ill COVID-19 patients
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Xinhua/APP): The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said it is facilitating access to the use of a blood plasma treatment for patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections. The convalescent plasma that contains antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is possibly effective against the infection, the FDA…
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US fast-tracking antimalarials to treat coronavirus
Washington, March 19 (AFP/APP): The US is fast-tracking antimalarial drugs for use as a treatment against the new coronavirus, President Donald Trump said Thursday, following encouraging early results in France and China. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have not been given a formal green light in the US to fight the pandemic, but the Food and Drug…