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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it plans to ban fluoride tablets and drops, which have long been prescribed to children in areas where the mineral is not added to drinking water. On Wednesday, July 23, the agency will hold a public meeting…

Dr. James H. Bekker made it clear while standing at a podium in front of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Silver Spring, Md. on July 23: there is no way to replace fluoride supplements if the government decides to take them off the market.

A meeting Wednesday at the Food and Drug Administration about fluoride supplements became, at one point, a contentious back-and-forth over whether the ingestible tablets harm children’s microbiomes or play a vital role in helping protect them from tooth…

On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration will host a public meeting featuring both supporters and opponents of fluoride supplements. While dentists overwhelmingly say the tablets have been used safely for decades, more than half of the meeting…

A public meeting hosted by the Reagan-Udall Foundation will take place July 23 at the FDA’s White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, Maryland. The meeting will explore the safety of prescription fluoride supplements, with discussions focused on…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to evaluate the continued availability of ingestible fluoride supplements, including tablets and drops commonly prescribed to children in areas lacking fluoridated water.

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary touted the agency’s first 100 days under the new Trump administration during an event Thursday, emphasizing efforts to ramp up hiring and divert resources to food research, Amanda reports.

New developments in the field of biomedicine, including new genomic and cellular therapies, present tremendous opportunities for their applications to animal health, welfare and food production, as documented in FDA-CVM’s Animal and Veterinary Industry…

A report released last year by the nonprofit Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA on the Food Traceability Rule noted that many retailers, suppliers, and distributors were not even aware of the sweeping standard. It also highlighted concerns related to…

The meeting, which is being facilitated by the Reagan-Udall Foundation, follows the FDA’s announcement in May that it aims to remove orally ingestible unapproved products containing fluoride that are prescribed for children from the market.