On February 13, 2014, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) posted its interim final rule regarding the employee protection provision of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
This provision, often known as the whistleblower provision, establishes procedures for handling
On March 12, 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shut down the plant of cheese manufacturer, Roos Foods, after an investigation linked a listeria outbreak to the manufacturer’s Mexican cheeses.
In February, the FDA recalled various types of Mexican
The FDA issues Warning Letters to provide individuals and companies with an opportunity to take voluntary and prompt corrective actions for violations of regulatory significance that may otherwise lead to enforcement. A Warning Letter is the FDA’s principal means of
On July 1, 2014, amendments to the Health of Animals Regulations will come into force, extending livestock traceability requirements to domestic pigs farmed for food production[1].
The new regulations will allow for a formal agreement with a third-party
With intense competition among retail grocery chains, food manufacturers are increasingly being confronted by demands to freeze or roll-back the prices at which they sell to retailers. This is, in part, due to the lower margins earned when retailers aggressively
On March 4, 2014, the Obama Administration released its Fiscal Year 2015 proposed budget, which includes significant changes to federal health care spending and certain Medicare program requirements. Described below are certain proposals of significance to the healthcare sector.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has requested comments on the burdens of collecting information under the Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (“SRDP”).
The SRDP, released by CMS in September 2010 and revised in May 2011, gives providers a way
On Wednesday, March 5th, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) released a report stating that an investigation into 10 states’ Medicaid agencies found that there were many security vulnerabilities that could result in patients’
On March 10, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) released the State Medicaid Fraud Control Units (“MFCUs”) FY 2013 Annual Report. According to the Annual Report, the 50 State MFCUs recovered over
On March 12th, the FDA published a letter it had sent last month to Switzerland-based drug maker IBSA Institut Biochimique SA regarding the false and misleading nature of a Facebook page for the company’s drug, Tirosint.
Specifically, the FDA’s Office