Tanning facility use: are we exceeding Food and Drug Administration limits?

Tanning facility use: are we exceeding Food and Drug Administration limits?

BACKGROUND The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends exposure limits for tanning bed use. Tanning patrons may not be following these recommendations and may be overexposed to damaging ultraviolet radiation (UV). OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to assess tanning patrons' adherence to FDA-recommended exposure limits and to measure the amount of UVA and UVB radiation emitted by tan...

When Are Medical Apps Medical? Off-Label Use and the Food and Drug Administration

People have a love/hate relationship with rapidly changing healthcare technology. While consumer demand for medical apps continues to grow as rapidly as does supply (there are over 100,000 health, wellness and medical applications, or ‘apps’ on the market), healthcare professionals and safety experts worry about the impact of these apps on the health consumer. In response to the rapidly growing...

Molecular Targets for Endometriosis Therapy: Where We Are and Where We Are Going?

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New food safety initiatives in the Food and Drug Administration.

Concern over the presence of veterinary drug residues in food has been increasing world wide. Because of this concern the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has been involved on an international basis in efforts to develop food safety standards for veterinary drugs. The major thrust of the Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods (CC/RVDF) has be...

Food and Drug Administration regulation of food safety.