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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

Smart toothbrush While AI helps dental professionals provide better treatments, smart toothbrushes enable all of us to take better care of our teeth. These provide real-time feedback via a companion app warning you if you are applying too much pressure, where you are brushing and even coach the user as to how to brush properly.

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Remote Patient Testing Faces a Cloudy Future under VALID

FDA Law Blog

Although on its face the restriction applies to LDTs, collection device manufacturers could, as a consequence, effectively be precluded from continuing to market their specimen collection devices to labs offering LDTs which enable home collection unless they first obtain authorization specifically for home collection.

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Out At Home: FDA’s Vocal Support of Home Testing but Reluctance to Clear Novel OTC Home Tests

FDA Law Blog

To obtain clearance of an OTC home IVD, a sponsor must provide the usual suite of analytical and clinical validation that would be required for any IVD, demonstrating adequate repeatability, stability, sensitivity, specificity, and so on. seeking treatment). This makes seeking clearance of an OTC home test a risky business endeavor.

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FDA Issues Two Guidance Documents on Food Allergen Labeling Requirements

FDA Law Blog

In addition to providing additional examples of tree nuts, the draft guidance states that FDA considers the following categories of fish to be major food allergens under Section 201(qq): Jawless fish (e.g., All packaged foods served or sold on transportation carriers (e.g., 1, 2023, sesame. lampreys); Bony fish (e.g., trout); and.

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This Thanksgiving, Be Thankful for Family and Food(borne Illness Prevention)

FDA Law Blog

In an effort to correct some of the bottlenecks in traceability efforts, the final rule imposes additional recordkeeping requirements on domestic and foreign firms who manufacture, process, pack, or hold foods on the Food Traceability List (FTL) for U.S. Some examples of KDEs include: Location descriptions (e.g., Traceability lot code (TLC).

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Infrastructure Bill Set to Delay Trump-era Rebate Rule to Raise Cash

FDA Law Blog

Although the bipartisan bill largely deals with the nation’s transportation infrastructure, Section 90006 delays the so-called “rebate rule,” a Trump-era rule finalized by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. See 42 C.F.R. 1001.952(h). See bipartisan bill summary at 5.