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FDA

abbr.

Food and Drug Administration

FDA,

abbreviation for Food and Drug Administration.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services whose principal purpose is to enforce the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The agency insures that foods for sale in the United States are safe, pure, and wholesome; that drugs and therapeutic devices are safe and effective; that cosmetics are harmless; and that all these products are correctly labeled and packaged. The FDA is also responsible for enforcing the federal act that requires informative labels on any household product that is toxic, corrosive, irritant, or inflammable or generates pressure through decomposition or heat.

If a product in interstate commerce is proved to be faulty, the FDA is authorized to bring court action or seize the adulterated or incorrectly labeled merchandise and to prosecute the responsible person or company.

FDA,

n.pr See Food and Drug Administration.

FDA,

n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. See also Food and Drug Administration.

FDA

Food & Drug Administration Public health The agency charged with determining the safety and efficacy of drugs and therapeutic devices before marketing and assuring that certain labeling specifications and advertising standards are met while marketing the product. See Investigational new drug, Phase I, II, III studies.

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Antidepressant Drugs, SSRI
Appetite-Enhancing Drugs
Blue Book
Class I Device
Class II Device
Class III Device
Class Recall
Down syndrome
drug metabolism
erectile dysfunction
finasteride
Food and Drug Administration
Huntington Disease
impotence
Interactions
investigational new drug
Keloids
MDR system
Me Too Drug

On August 8, 2009, Emord & Associates, PC, filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Food and Drug Administration on behalf of the Alliance for Natural Health US, dietary supplement formulators Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, and the Coalition to End FDA and FTC Censorship.

Emord sues FDA; selenium claim suppression violates First Amendment by Emord, Jonathan W. / Townsend Letter

Currently, FDA is focusing a lot of its efforts on AERs, having recently released two guidance documents--one for dietary supplements and another for monographed OTC drug products.

Reviewing internal AER policies: FDA's new guidance documents and ... by Harrison, Todd / Nutraceuticals World

The FDA team found that documentation of deviation reports was inaccurate in some instances.

CSL fails to take proper corrective actions by Mashaw, Rebecca / Validation Times