The new regulations are part of the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act, which aims to make the agency more proactive at preventing outbreaks.
During her tenure with the exchange, she had the opportunity to work closely with congressional staff drafting the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.
The bipartisan "Gang of 8" senators introduced an act recently, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, that takes a promising new approach.
In the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997, Congress specifically exempted drugs compounded for identified individual patients from the same requirements governing manufactured drugs.
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The recent Food Safety Modernization Act extends these guidelines with new requirements for FDA regulated food companies to establish food defense plans to protect these highest risk production and storage areas.
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The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, passed at a time when Republicans occupied the White House and controlled Congress, authorized the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to perform comparative effectiveness research.
The comparable legislation that mandates user-fee waivers for small medical device companies, the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (MDUFMA), specifies different criteria: Whether or not a company is small is determined by gross receipts or sales for the company and affiliates.
That kind of anti-regulatory ideology brought us some of the legislation that fostered the global financial crisis, such as the elimination of the Glass-Steagall Act and the passage of the Commodities Futures Modernization Act, which prohibited some regulation of derivatives such as credit default swaps.
Thanks to the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, which gives the FDA much more power to demand food safety testing (and reduce the need for recalls after people become ill), I think the demand for NEOG products will increase dramatically over the next five years.
The health insurance and managed-care provider is still up 72.5% in the past 12 months, and the gurus decided it was time to jump off of the train and lock in profits, especially since the Medicare Modernization Act, which takes effect next year, could put a crimp in the growth in premiums that health insurance providers can charge.
But the industry and its allies pushed for more, leading to passage of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, signed into law Feb. 14.
The TSA is "developing procedures to implement the Screening Partnership Program-related provisions included in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, " the agency said in a statement.
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