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Senate votes to continue gun-toting FDA raids

Walter Olson — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:37:21 +0000

Amish raw-milk farmers beware: as Mike Riggs reports at Reason, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky introduced an amendment that would have curtailed the power of Food and Drug Administration agents to carry firearms and make warrantless arrests — the agency would still have retained many other legal weapons with which to secure compliance with its will — but the amendment failed by a 78-15 vote. The 15 are listed here.

Tags: eat drink and be merry, FDA, police

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FDA and regenerative medicine

Walter Olson — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:45:43 +0000

Alex Tabarrok applies a Straussian reading to a WSJ op-ed by former FDA commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach. [Marginal Revolution]

Tags: FDA, regulation and its reform

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April 9 roundup

Walter Olson — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:12:25 +0000

Forfeiture-happy customs agents bedevil family flying to Ethiopia [Volokh]
Lawmakers, ABA ex-bigs back campaign to grant law license to illegal alien [Miami Herald]
“NYT reports the FDA is stunned democracy requires they answer to elected political leaders as part of enacting laws” [@CraigBruney]
When did doghouses become a crime? [Alex Ballingall/Maclean's via @amyalkon]
Why Tennessee, famous for distilleries, used to have so few of them [Nashville City Paper via @radleybalko]
ESPN tells only one side of Title IX story [Eric McErlain, Daily Caller; Saving Sports]
Greece: “At the health department they were told that all the shareholders of the company would have to provide chest X-rays” [Mark Perry]

Tags: alcohol, animal rights, bar associations, FDA, forfeiture, immigration law, regulation and its reform, Tennessee, Title IX

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As FDA and Congress fiddle

Walter Olson — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:08:08 +0000

“Supplies of Critical Child Leukemia Drug Are Almost Gone” [Atlantic Wire] Earlier on the shortage of hospital and community drugs, and Washington’s role in it, here, here, here, here, and here.

Tags: FDA, pharmaceuticals

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November 29 roundup

Walter Olson — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:50:29 +0000

UK: “Premiums to soar as accident claims lawyers push up cost of motor insurance, MPs hear” [Telegraph]
John Stossel on death by FDA [Reason] Disapproving stance on e-cigarettes might cost lives [Balko] Company abandons pioneering stem-cell research after running up $45 million in costs to win FDA approval of initial safety tests [Technology Review] NYT can be obtuse about regulatory costs [Cowen]
No, we’re not allowed to let you out of the van to relieve the call of nature [Ted at PoL]
“Economic Damages Are Affirmed Though Plaintiff’s Earnings Rose After Accident” [NJLJ]
A shame about the business climate in Hawaii [Inverse Condemnation]
“Massachusetts Lawyer Loses License for a Year for Charging $93.8K Contingent Fee, Absent a Contingency” [Martha Neil, ABA Journal]
Movement “rapidly gaining steam” in U.S. to prohibit anonymous sperm donation [Glenn Cohen, Prawfs]

Tags: assisted reproduction, contingent fee, damages, FDA, Hawaii, United Kingdom

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Welcome LaDona Harvey listeners

Walter Olson — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:52:22 +0000

I just joined listeners at San Diego’s KOGO to talk about the FDA/USDA initiative to regulate salt content in food, about which you can read here and here. Deadline for filing comments is tomorrow; the most direct link I know of for doing so is here (use “Individual Consumer” as category of comment unless that doesn’t apply).

Tags: FDA, on TV and radio, salt

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Will the FDA get into the salt-reduction business?

Walter Olson — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:58:38 +0000

If the Food and Drug Administration continues down its current path, it could begin ordering mandatory salt reductions in processed and restaurant foods ranging from pretzels to cold cuts to take-out chicken nuggets. As I explain at Cato at Liberty, time is running out for public comment on the FDA’s plans to enter the field. Earlier here, etc.

Tags: FDA, nanny state, salt

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November 8 roundup

Walter Olson — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:07:26 +0000

Washington Post pundit Dana Milbank’s lament: Obama isn’t doing enough to intimidate opponents [David Boaz, Cato]
FDA defends itself against rising criticism on drug and device approval [NYT] NYT approaches the issue with a curious slant [Paul Rubin]
California courts: what makes you think we need to follow SCOTUS on arbitration? [Cal Biz Lit, more, Russell Jackson] Senate anti-arbitration hearing could have used more truth in advertising [PoL]
Pols want to fast-track favored L.A. stadium against environmental suits under California’s obstructor-friendly CEQA. Hmmm… why not fast-track everyone else too? [Gideon Kanner, Stephen Smith, SCPR, Paul Taylor, Examiner]
State law forbids use of deadly force in defense of business property: “Burglar’s family awarded $300,000 in wrongful death suit” [Colorado Springs Gazette]
One reason the Ninth Circuit may go off on more frolics: three-judge, one-clerk bench memos [Kerr]

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October 14 roundup

Walter Olson — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:24:11 +0000

Pre-terror-attack antibiotic availability? HHS doesn’t think you’re sophisticated enough to handle that freedom [Stewart Baker]
Uh-oh: some New York lawmakers want “a more refined First Amendment” [Slashdot, Lucy Steigerwald]
Wal-Mart v. Dukes decision could curb certification of some wage and hour class actions [Fox]
“Miss. Supreme Court Removes Judge from $322M Asbestos Case Because of Dad’s Lawsuits” [ABA Journal]
Mass. town wants to seize family motel under forfeiture law, IJ objects [Jacob Sullum, Mark Perry]
Will FDA use its new tobacco-regulatory power to stub out cigars? [DC]
“Dole settles pesticide litigation” [WSJ Law Blog, background]

Tags: banana pesticide litigation fraud, FDA, First Amendment, forfeiture, recusals, terrorism, tobacco, Wal-Mart v. Dukes

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FDA begins laying groundwork for mandatory salt reduction in food

Walter Olson — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:56:40 +0000

With a “Request for Comments, Data, and Information” (PDF), the Food and Drug Administration has begun laying the groundwork for mandatory sodium reductions in food processing. Caleb Brown interviewed me for a Cato podcast on the subject. For more on the furor over H.J. Heinz’s unpopular reformulation of HP Sauce at the suggestion of the British government, see Telegraph and Daily Mail accounts.

Tags: FDA, salt

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