Wednesday, July 22, 2009

FDA Responds about its warning letters search engine

Got this from "Webmail (L)" today. Love the personal touch. If I had to guess, some contractor who is now long gone implemented the actual warning letters search engine and now they have to either get that person back there to fix it or try and untangle someone else's spaghetti code themselves. Just a guess, but probably not fun for them either way.

Mr. Danese,

Thank you for your feedback. Our technical team is working hard to
resolve the remaining issues. Thank you for sending us emails about the
problems you encountered. We expect them to be resolved very soon.
Please don't hesitate to contact us when you have a question, suggestion
or any issues with our site. We are constantly working to improve the
site and appreciate your feedback.

Thank you,
Webmail (L)

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The Food and Drug Administration isn't able to reliably determine how much money it needs

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration isn't able to reliably determine how much money it needs to regulate medical products because, among other things, its staff can't track all the adverse-event reports it handles, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Full story here.