FDA Chief Gets Grilled Again Over Baby Formula Shortage
WASHINGTON — FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, pushed back Thursday at assertions by senators that FDA staff isn’t working hard enough to ease the nation’s baby formula shortage. “Complacency is apparently the FDA’s catchphrase when it comes to infant formula,” Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) […]
Abbott Formula Plant Was ‘Unacceptably Insanitary,’ FDA Chief Tells Lawmakers
WASHINGTON — FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, expressed disgust and disappointment over the conditions at the Abbott baby formula manufacturing plant in Sturgis, Michigan, while an Abbott official apologized and vowed to ensure that the problem would not return. “There is no dispute that the facility was unacceptably insanitary” when FDA inspectors went to see […]
Opinion | ‘I’m a Cardiologist; I’m Used to Doing Things’: What We Heard This Week
“I’m a cardiologist; I’m used to doing things.” — FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, during a press briefing discussing the agency’s proposal to ban menthol in cigarettes and other tobacco products. “It’s just really important to get the word out that we have a lot more tools in the toolkit now.” — Kathy Yang, PharmD, […]