Food and Drug Administration (FDA), agency of the Public Health Service division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is charged with protecting public health by ensuring that foods are safe and pure, cosmetics and other chemical substances harmless, and products safe, effective, and honestly labeled. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 and various bills since have strengthened government control by requiring prior-evidence-of-safety tests and procedures for new drugs, pesticides, and additives and colorings in foods and cosmetics. The FDA was first established in 1931; in 1940 it was transferred from the Dept. of Agriculture to the Federal Security Agency and in 1953 to the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, which was redesignated as Health and Human Services in 1979. The FDA consists of the centers for Drug Evaluation and Research, Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Veterinary Medicine, Devices and Radiological Health, and Toxicological Research. In the early 1990s, in response to criticism that its time-consuming approval processes penalized people with AIDS, it extended the classification system it uses to prioritize drugs in order to give AIDS drugs the highest priority; it also subsequently sped up the approval process for cancer drugs. Congressional legislation in 1997 mandated an overhaul of the FDA in order to speed review of new drugs and medical devices.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Established in 1927, it inspects, tests, approves, and sets safety standards for foods and food additives, drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and household and medical devices. It can prevent untested products from being sold and take legal action to halt the sale of undoubtedly harmful products or of products that involve a health or safety risk. Its authority is limited to interstate commerce; it cannot control prices nor directly regulate advertising except of prescription drugs and medical devices.

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FOR YEARS anti-smoking members of Congress have sought to give the Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco products.

Cigarette gag: smokes and speech by Sullum, Jacob / Reason

99 Hardcover TX551 Now a consultant with a private firm in Alexandria, Virginia, Summers is a former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food labeling expert with 32 years tenure at the FDA.

Food labeling compliance review, 4th ed. (CD-ROM included) by SciTech Book News

Under the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments Act of 2007, which became law last September, the FDA is looking at requiring manufacturers of medical supplies to apply unique device identifiers (UDI), such as RFID technology, to individual items in order to track them along the supply chain.

FDA considering medical tracking system by Health Management Technology

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Fonvizin, Artur Vladimirovich

Fonvizin, Denis

Fonvizin, Denis Ivanovich