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Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

EPA Releases Final Rules for TCE and PCE Under the Toxic Substances Control Act

The U.S. EPA recently announced that it released new risk management rules under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for TCE and PCE.1 Manufacturers and other industrial clients need to be cognizant of these new rules...more

Perkins Coie

FDA Human Foods Priority Deliverables for FY 2025

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On October 30, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) newly minted Human Foods Program (HFP) published a list of priority deliverables for Fiscal Year 2025.  By way of brief background, FDA designed the HFP to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - November 1st, Scottsdale, AZ

Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance education on a wide variety of current and emerging topics...more

Holland & Hart - Health Law Blog

Idaho’s New Crisis Hold Law

Idaho’s new crisis hold statute takes effect October 1, 2024, and allows hospitals to temporarily detain “persons with a neurocognitive disorder who are in acute crisis due to an unidentified underlying medical condition [so...more

Troutman Pepper

New FDA Guidance on AI and Medical Products

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n March 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a paper titled “Artificial Intelligence and Medical Products: How CBER, CDER, CDRH, and OCP are Working Together.” This paper describes the FDA’s strategy for...more

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EPA Turns Up the Pressure on Chemical Release Prevention and Preparation

On May 10, 2024, extensive revisions recently adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the Risk Management Program (RMP) regulations (40 CFR Part 68) will take effect. The revisions, dubbed by EPA as the “Safer...more

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That’s A Wrap! CDC Reduces Recommended COVID-19 Isolation Period

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On March 1, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it is updating its COVID-19 guidance and is no longer recommending that individuals who test positive for COVID-19 isolate for five days.  The...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Unlocking the Power of Precision: Data Quality and Accessibility for Corporate Security Departments

Amidst the relentless waves of pandemic-induced uncertainty, organizations found themselves at a crossroads, compelled to reimagine how their businesses operated. For example, when stay at home orders continued to be extended...more

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AI Frameworks Provide a Roadmap for Compliance Officers

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As governments around the world begin to introduce new frameworks and standards addressing the responsible design, development, deployment and operation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, chief compliance officers...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

White House Ushers in New Era of Regulation With Landmark Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

The AI executive order moves the U.S. closer to a broader unified approach on federal AI regulation, expanding on the AI Bill of Rights and NIST AI Risk Management Framework and focusing on the responsible development and...more

Goldberg Segalla

Next On EPA’s Chopping Block: Trichloroethylene

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The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a risk management rule as part of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that would ban the production, processing and distribution of trichloroethylene (TCE) for all uses....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Are We Really Prepared for the Next Pandemic?‎

Schwabe’s recently published report, “State of Healthcare in the Pacific Northwest,” offers reason for optimism. It notes that over 40% of the healthcare workers in Oregon and Washington who responded to the firm’s survey...more

K&L Gates LLP

New Cybersecurity Tools for the Healthcare and Public Health Sector

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Cybersecurity is not simply a technical issue of interest only to information technology departments. Cybersecurity issues create risk throughout health care entities and must be managed as a core business risk; at a minimum,...more

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FDA releases systematic review of the scientific literature on food safety culture

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Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a systematic review of the scientific literature on food safety culture. The review was conducted as part of FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety blueprint,...more

Gardner Law

Transatlantic Legal-Regulatory Update: Live from the Heart of Silicon Valley

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US and EU Life Sciences Law firms Fieldfisher & Gardner Law recently held a CLE event in Silicon Valley covering Healthcare Compliance, Data Privacy and Regulatory hot topics for MedTech and Pharma companies. Discussion...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

CPSC Presses Onward with Equity Action Plan

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In late spring, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) held a roundtable for interested stakeholders to discuss the Equity Action Plan it issued on January 20, 2022. In hosting the public forum, the CPSC sought to...more

J.S. Held

SARS-CoV-2 Disinfection and Potential Overuse Adverse Health Effects

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The use of surface disinfection products boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic. These products continue to flourish as a mechanism to reduce the transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 that...more

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National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan Summary

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The White House has released a COVID-19 preparedness plan that assumes we will be living with the virus for the long term. The 96-page plan has four primary goals: (1) protect against and treat COVID-19, (2) prepare for...more

Lathrop GPM

2022 Legal Guide to Privacy and Data Security

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Facial recognition technology, drones the size of a butterfly, secure microchips replacing magnetic stripes on credit cards, sensors the size of a grain of sand swallowed by patients that transmit data directly to the...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Ontario’s Latest COVID-19 Restrictions: Employees Required to Work From Home Again

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At 12:01am on January 5, 2022, Ontario will implement additional COVID-19 public health measures. These restrictions include the closure of certain businesses, capacity limit reductions, and a requirement that employees work...more

Bennett Jones LLP

New Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Laws to Take Force December 1, 2021

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On December 1, 2021, sweeping changes to Alberta's current occupational health and safety legislation will come into force. The new laws rectify many of the previous challenges that arose from ambiguous and overly...more

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California’s New COVID-19 Vaccine (Non)Mandate and Testing Requirements

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On July 26, 2021, the California Department of Public Health (“CDPH”) issued a State Public Health Officer Order (“Order”) seeking to address the increase California is experiencing in positive COVID-19 cases. With infections...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

OSHA Issues New COVID-19 Guidance Focused on Protecting Unvaccinated and At-Risk Employees

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On June 10, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) –  the federal agency tasked with ensuring that working conditions are safe and healthful by setting and enforcing standards and by providing...more

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California and Los Angeles County Issue Guidance for Fully Vaccinated Employees in the Workplace

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Effective May 3, 2021, the California Department of Public Health issued COVID-19 Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People, applicable to non-health care settings, in response to the Interim Public Health...more

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CDC Issues New Mask and Social Distancing Guidance for Fully Vaccinated Individuals

Hot off the proverbial presses: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) announced today that fully vaccinated individuals can resume normal life activities without wearing masks or socially distancing.  The...more

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