{"id":419,"date":"2008-09-24T08:40:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T08:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neu.innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/?p=419"},"modified":"2016-06-09T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T07:30:46","slug":"fda-remains-passive-on-the-issue-of-nanotechnology-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/fda-remains-passive-on-the-issue-of-nanotechnology-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA remains passive on the issue of nanotechnology policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px;\">The primary disagreement appears to be whether to issue a policy at all, or rely on existing statutory and regulatory controls.\u00a0 As one might expect, the panel was split on this issue, resulting in no action in the short term.\u00a0 The split was right down the middle with 5 panel members voting in favor of a policy, 5 voting against, and 1 abstaining.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The panel did agree that FDA should collaborate with OSHA and EPA should either agency begin drafting a policy concerning nanoparticles.\u00a0 FDA will hold a public meeting in September to discuss particle size in drugs and how to obtain such information from its current database.<span lang=\"EN-GB\">FDA's inaction is not wholly surprising given the state of nanotechnology regulation.\u00a0 However, the even split was somewhat unexpected.\u00a0 The debate seems to center around the data submissions by companies seek FDA approval on products and what is already required.\u00a0 [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source:<br \/>\nNanotechnology Law Report<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0cm;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\np\n\t{mso-margin-top-alt:auto;\n\tmargin-right:0cm;\n\tmso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;\n\tmargin-left:0cm;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;\n\tmargin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt;\n\tmso-header-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-footer-margin:36.0pt;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n--><\/style>\n<link href=\"file:\/\/\/C:DOKUME~1ADMINI~1LOKALE~1Tempmsohtml1?1clip_filelist.xml\" rel=\"File-List\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FDA Week is reporting that a meeting at the Food and Drug Administration late last month failed to result in any agreement about a possible policy on nanomaterials.  The FDA Nanotechnology task force met on July 22, 2008 to consider the creation of a policy for nanomaterials, but failed to come to any consensus on whether one should be drafted, let alone the contents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12158,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/12158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}