Food and Drug Administration

• Nearly 40,000 cases of tater tots sold in 26 states part of elevated recall after plastic pieces found - The recall was upgraded Tuesday to a Class II
• ‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World - The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.
• Trump Moves to Prevent Access to Gender-Related Care for Minors - Proposed new rules would pull all federal financing from hospitals that continue to provide gender treatments for adolescents.
• Former F.D.A. Commissioners Sound Alarm on Plan to Change Vaccine Policy - Twelve former commissioners, in a New England Journal of Medicine article, said they were “deeply concerned” by a leaked memo from the agency’s vaccine regulator.
• FDA scrutiny of WHOOP signals challenges for niche wearable device makers - (Corrects dateline to Dec 3) By Puyaan Singh and Sneha S K Dec 3 (Reuters) - Niche fitness-tracking firms such as WHOOP are coming under increased regulatory scrutiny as technological advances blur