by Jenn Porter | Feb 20, 2020 | Canadian Regulatory, Cosmetics, European Regulatory, Events/Company Updates, Innovation, Medical Devices, Natural Health Products, OTC Drugs, Our View, Research/Science/Technology, U.S. Regulatory, Uncategorized
An entrepreneur recently told me she had discovered a new use for an old molecule. She was not sure about moving ahead with it because patent protection was not solid. I said “so what”, just to be provocative. Then I told her that having patent protection was not the...
by Jenn Porter | Feb 19, 2020 | Canadian Regulatory, Medical Devices, Natural Health Products, Research/Science/Technology, U.S. Regulatory, Uncategorized
The topic on everyone’s mind lately has been a new virus discovered in Wuhan City, China known as novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV. The World Health Organization (WHO) was made aware of an abnormal increase in cases of pneumonia in the Chinese city on December 31, 2019....
by Jenn Porter | Feb 18, 2020 | Canadian Regulatory, Cosmetics, European Regulatory, Innovation, Medical Devices, Natural Health Products, Our View, Research/Science/Technology, U.S. Regulatory
The new year has just begun, and it is already friendlier than last year- at least more animal friendly that is! It is clear in today’s society that cruelty-free products are very important to cosmetic consumers and will likely continue to increase in importance....
by Jenn Porter | Feb 15, 2020 | Canadian Regulatory, Cosmetics, European Regulatory, Events/Company Updates, Innovation, Medical Devices, Natural Health Products, OTC Drugs, Our View, Research/Science/Technology, U.S. Regulatory, Uncategorized
A lot of people have been contacting me about complaints made about their innovations. Now to be clear, I’m not referring to things like Google reviews although these may or may not be relevant. I am thinking of complaints made directly to the company about the...
by Jenn Porter | Feb 15, 2020 | Canadian Regulatory, Cosmetics, European Regulatory, Innovation, Medical Devices, Natural Health Products, Our View, Research/Science/Technology
Just over one week into the new decade and the medical device industry is already launching into the future. The innovative researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have taken a large step into the future of ultrasound imaging technologies. They have...
by Jenn Porter | Jan 7, 2020 | Canadian Regulatory, Cosmetics, European Regulatory, Natural Health Products, OTC Drugs, Research/Science/Technology, U.S. Regulatory
Health Canada has updated its assessment requirements for Nitrosamines in pharmaceutical products. Nitrosamines are, defined by the World Health Organization, as “any molecule containing the nitroso functional group. These molecules are of concern because nitrosamine...
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