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Hair Testing Litigation Center
Breaking the Silence: Exposing an Unlawful Testing Regime For more than three decades, public agencies and private employers have relied on hair drug testing methods that were never approved or authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
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How to Challenge an Employment Decision Based on Unapproved Hair Drug...
I. Introduction: What’s at Stake For nearly three decades, hair drug testing has quietly operated as a shadow policy tool across public and private employment sectors. Law enforcement agencies, hospitals, security contractors, transportation...
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When Science Becomes Policy Without Oversight — and People Pay the...
I. Introduction: The Power of Silence Public policy is not made only in hearings, courtrooms, or legislative chambers. It is also made in the quiet—through agency memos that never get drafted, rulemakings that never open, enforcement actions that...
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How FDA Inaction Enabled Decades of Unlawful Hair Testing
For more than three decades, both public agencies and private employers have relied on hair drug tests the federal government never actually authorized. These unapproved methods have determined who gets hired, who keeps their job, and...
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What an FDA Citizen Petition Really Means — and Why Job...
For years, both public agencies and private companies have quietly relied on drug testing methods the federal government never actually authorized. These unapproved practices have shut people out of jobs, cost workers their livelihoods, and evaded...
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Former NYPD Officer Files Citizen Petition Urging FDA Crackdown on Unlawful...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPetition challenges decades-long misuse of Psychemedics Corporation’s unvalidated drug testing on law enforcement officers and applicants, exposing regulatory gaps, racial disparities, and due-process violations.New...
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