Dr. George Tidmarsh, physician, scientist, and biotech CEO, joins Jerry Rogers on "The Business of America" podcast to ...

T he U.S. FDA will convene a panel of scientific experts on May 20 to discuss the "safety and necessity" of talc as an additive in food, drugs, and cosmetics.

But talc is still prevalent in food and drugs, FDA officials said during a panel discussion on May 20. “Talc is in candy that children eat. It’s in food,” FDA commissioner Marty Makary said.

Your editorial “The FDA Takes a Trial-Lawyer Turn” (May 21) criticizes the Food and Drug Administration for convening an expert panel to explore whether talc is a potential carcinogen. You ...

Surgeons, including Dr. Marty Makary (who led the FDA’s roundtable), have used talc in pleurodesis procedures because it causes a powerful inflammatory reaction.

The FDA's proposed rule would require manufacturers test samples of talc-containing cosmetic products for asbestos with methods including polarized light and transmission electron microscopy ...

Read more: Reviewing the Safety of our Foods and Drugs: An Urgent Need for a Comprehensive Reevaluation by FDA of Talc in The American Food and Drug Supply. Dr. George F. Tidmarsh, co-author of ...

Talc is a mineral used to absorb moisture or improve the texture, feel and color of cosmetics. It is mined from underground deposits that are sometimes located near the toxic mineral asbestos.

The U.S. FDA will convene a panel of scientific experts on May 20 to discuss the "safety and necessity" of talc as an additive in food, drugs, and cosmetics.

Despite what critics might claim about supposed “cuts” to scientific research under the Trump administration, what we are seeing now with the FDA’s talc inquiry is how government should ...

FDA proposes standardized testing to detect asbestos in talc cosmetics Talc is a mineral used to absorb moisture or improve the texture, feel and color of cosmetics ...