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From the Governor's desk to the FDA's updated guidance, connected medical devices are under the microscope in 2026 It Started with a Patient Monitor and a Chinese IP Address In January 2026, the FDA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued alerts warning that certain Chinese-manufactured patient monitoring devices contained a backdoor in their firmware. The backdoor connected to a third-party IP address and transmitted data without notifying the hospital or the...

A new inspection pilot, an AI tool called Elsa, and a Texas labeling fight that is still not over FDA Just Changed How It Knocks on Your Door In April 2026, the FDA quietly started showing up at food facilities for something new: single-day inspectional assessments. On May 6, 2026, the agency made it official, announcing at the Food and Drug Law Institute's annual conference that it had launched a pilot program of one-day inspections for facilities identified by artificial intelligence as...

What the agency's 2026 ingredient rulemaking push means for your business and your labels The FDA Is Asking a Deceptively Simple Question What exactly is a dietary ingredient? You would think that after more than 30 years under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), we would have a clean answer to that. We do not. And the FDA is now making it official that the ambiguity has to go. In March 2026, the FDA held a public meeting titled "Exploring the Scope of Dietary Supplement...