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“Every little one, every little one,” a song lyric from Bruce Hornsby and the Range’s 1986 single, “Every Little Kiss,” comes to mind when we read a recent Food and Drug Administration Warning Letter issued to a reprocessor...more
On January 31, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a Warning Letter to RightEye, LLC (RightEye), the manufacturer of the RightEye Vision System, for misbranding and adulteration. The RightEye Vision...more
In 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) issued a total of nine enforcement letters targeting advertising and promotion violations for prescription drugs and devices. A summary of the noteworthy...more
The Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) user fee negotiations may have hit an iceberg, but it did not sink all the legislative riders that accompanied this summer’s House and Senate bills. Buried within the...more
When it comes to discussing medical devices regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), words such as “approved” and “cleared” cannot be used interchangeably as these terms carry a particular meaning....more
A judge in the District of Massachusetts recently questioned whether Congress intended to criminalize off-label promotion through misbranding and adulteration statutes. In an order denying a Rule 29 motion brought by two...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food and Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of AGG outside the Food and Drug practice....more
The Food and Drug Administration issued a Warning Letter to a medical device company after conducting an inspection of the facility’s medical device operations....more
On December 10, 2018, Olympus Medical Systems Corporation and a former quality manager at the company pleaded guilty to introducing misbranded medical devices into interstate commerce in violation of the Federal Food, Drug...more
Last week, in United States v. Scully, the Second Circuit vacated the conviction of a distributor of pharmaceutical products on misbranding charges due to evidentiary issues surrounding his advice-of-counsel defense at trial....more
Executive Summary: The most important Park doctrine case in over forty years may be heading to the Supreme Court – but not if the federal government has its way. The Responsible Corporate Officer doctrine (“RCO doctrine”),...more
On February 29, 2016, Minneapolis-based medical device company Vascular Solutions, Inc. (“VSI”) and its CEO Howard Root were acquitted by a jury of conspiracy and misbranding charges in a closely-followed trial in San...more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services recently released its Semiannual Report to Congress. Through the first three quarters of 2015, OIG announced recoveries of $3.35 billion...more
Amarin is an important US district court opinion affirming the importance of the Second Circuit’s Caronia decision and finding that pharmaceutical and medical device companies have a constitutionally protected right to...more
Officers and directors of Irish and Northern Irish companies whose products would be regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration (life sciences companies, specifically) should be aware of developments on the issue of...more