The focus on innovative manufacturing will also include a new clearinghouse to share info about advanced manufacturing technology within the US agency’s device center.

The largest medical device lobby group in the US says it’s open to the administration’s decision to invoke the Defense Production Act to boost testing and PPE production, but wants to be consulted on how to implement it.

Dietary ingredients identified in recent FDA warning letters as linked to disease claims by marketers directing customers to scientific literature include omega-3 fatty acid, ginkgo biloba, glucosamine curcumin and vitamin D.