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Consumer Updates
Consumer Updates are timely articles that cover product approvals, safety warnings, and other health information for you and your family. You can sign up to receive e-mail alerts about new articles immediately after they are posted on FDA's Web site, or on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. You can also sign up for an RSS feed. Some of these articles are available in Spanish.
Every day, Americans rely on FDA-regulated products—from toothpaste and contact lenses to food and life-saving medicines. FDA promotes and protects the public health by helping safe and effective products reach the market in a timely way, and by monitoring products for continued safety after they are in use. The agency regulates animal and veterinary products, drugs, medical devices, products that emit radiation, food, cosmetics, and vaccines and other biologics.
Recent Consumer Updates
- Facing Facts About Acne
- FDA Expands Access to Investigational Drugs
- FDA's MedWatch Safety Alerts: August 2009
- Warning on Body Building Products Marketed as Containing Steroids or Steroid-Like Substances
- Treating Head Lice
- FDA Warns of Health Risks Posed by E-Cigarettes
- Reporting Drug Quality Problems
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