{"id":475,"date":"2020-04-22T13:18:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=475"},"modified":"2020-08-31T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:42:34","slug":"fda-takes-steps-to-enhance-availability-of-safe-and-effective-face-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/22\/fda-takes-steps-to-enhance-availability-of-safe-and-effective-face-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Takes Steps to Enhance Availability of Safe and Effective Face Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week, the U.S. Food &amp; Drug Administration (FDA) has taken a number of steps to enable manufacturers and distributors of face masks to more efficiently make their products available to the marketplace. FDA has accomplished this by establishing criteria that would allow manufacturers to bypass normally required (and often time-consuming) regulatory review.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/fda_takes_steps_enhance_availability_safe_effective_face_masks_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week, the U.S. Food &amp; Drug Administration (FDA) has taken a number of steps to enable manufacturers and distributors of face masks to more efficiently make their products available to the marketplace. FDA has accomplished this by establishing criteria that would allow manufacturers to bypass normally required (and often time-consuming) regulatory review. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/22\/fda-takes-steps-to-enhance-availability-of-safe-and-effective-face-masks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FDA Takes Steps to Enhance Availability of Safe and Effective Face Masks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[631,46,957,351,350,83,630],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-face-masks","tag-fda","tag-life-sciences-and-medical-technologies","tag-personal-protective-equipment","tag-ppe","tag-regulatory","tag-u-s-food-drug-administration"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}