Rep. Act No. 9711, otherwise known as the "Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Act of 2009", renamed the Bureau of Food and Drugs to "Food and Drug Administration (FDA)". It likewise grants to the FDA the following powers over "health products", among other things:

1. To require all manufacturers, traders, distributors, importers, exporters, wholesalers, retailers, consumers, and non-consumer users of health products to report to the FDA any incident that reasonably indicates that said product has caused or contributed to the death, serious illness or serious illness injury to a consumer, a patient, or any person;
   
   
2. To issue cease and desist orders motu propio or upon verified complaint for health products, whether or not registered with the FDA Provided, that for registered health products, the cease and desist order is valid for thirty (30) days and may be extended for sixty (60) days only after due process has been observed; and


3. After due process, to order the ban, recall, and/or withdrawal of any health product found to have caused the death, serious illness or serious injury to a consumer or patient, or is found to be imminently injurious, unsafe, dangerous, or grossly deceptive, and to require all concerned to implement the risk management plan which is a requirement for the issuance of the appropriate authorization.

"Health products" is defined as food, drugs, cosmetics, devices, biologicals, vaccines, in-vitro diagnostic reagents and household/urban hazardous substances and/or a combination of and/or a derivative thereof and shall also refer to products that may have an effect on health which require regulations as determined by the FDA."