emergency-use-authorization
2 stories tagged "emergency-use-authorization"
Drugs & FDA
The Screwworm America Eradicated With Sterile Flies Is Back, and This Time Washington Also Reached for an Emergency-Authorized Chemical
Dicyclanil, an Australian sheep-blowfly chemical with mouse liver tumors in its toxicology file, is now cleared for cattle, swine, goats and wildlife under section 564, the same emergency-use power heavily used for pandemic countermeasures.
Infectious DiseaseThe FDA Put an Emergency Label on a Zoetis Dog Pill for a Screwworm America Erased in 1966 Without a Single Drug
The sterile-fly barrier that kept the flesh-eating screwworm out of America for sixty years gave way, and Washington's answer has been a run of emergency drug authorizations, the newest for a Zoetis dog pill whose maker's own release cites no efficacy data against the parasite.