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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

The government asserted additional allegations that are outside our scope. Pharmacists’ Corresponding Responsibility A controlled substance prescription, to be valid, must be issued for “a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of [their] professional practice.” Zarzamora Press Release.

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FIFA Cases Hold Lessons for FDA-Regulated Companies – Organizations can be Victims of Their Own Employees’ Criminal Conduct

FDA Law Blog

To hold a corporation liable for these actions, the government must establish that the corporate agent’s actions (i) were within the scope of his duties and (ii) were intended, at least in part, to benefit the corporation. In light of the above, the government generally resists the notion that an organization is a victim of its own employees.

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Pharmacy Owner Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges for Illegally Administering COVID-19 Vaccines to Children Under 12

FDA Law Blog

Richardson — On September 24, 2021, the owner of a pharmacy in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty to participating in a felony conspiracy to convert government property and to commit health care fraud in connection with the illegal vaccination of minors between the ages of 7 to 11 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. By Kalie E.

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Silence Isn’t Golden: Two Executives Convicted in First Criminal Prosecution Under the Consumer Product Safety Act

FDA Law Blog

According to the government, these companies knew as early as 2012 that their dehumidifiers were defective, in that they could overheat and catch fire. The government charged these individuals with conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § Per DOJ, this is the first-ever criminal prosecution of individuals for failure to report under the CPSA.

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The D.C. District Court Slaps Down on Procedural Grounds FDA’s 20-year Effort to Implement its Memorandum of Understanding to Address Interstate Shipments of Compounded Drug Products

FDA Law Blog

District Court’s opening sentence of its Memorandum Opinion captures the historical essence of compounding: Evoking Victorian apothecary scales and porcelain mortars and pestles, compounded drugs are formulated by pharmacists to create medicines tailored for individual patients.

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Rheumatology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Johnson, MD, FACP, FIDSA , Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, added that ABIM provides program directors with aggregate performance data in their programs and, with permission, individual graduate data so that program directors can make adjustments to the programs as needed.

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No Walk in the Park: JAMA Editorial Calls for More Park Prosecutions; We Disagree

FDA Law Blog

While the authors did a yeoman’s job of combing through the criminal cases to identify what they view as a “handful” of cases and call for increased use of the Park doctrine, we at the FDA Law Blog respectfully disagree. The JAMA editorial notes that there are few Park cases for two primary reasons: [The government] may lead.