FDA and Vioxx

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This paper examines the FDA, an agency that is a regulatory and public health agency that oversees most food products (other than meat and poultry), human and animal drugs, therapeutic agents of biological origin, medical devices, radiation-emitting products used by doctors and the consumer, cosmetics and animal feed. Its role in the Vioxx problem is discussed, along with possible solutions.

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"Drugs are introduced to the marketplace after what may have been years of development, a long series of trials and the presentation of test results to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval. The agency is a regulatory and public health agency that oversees most food products (other than meat and poultry), human and animal drugs, therapeutic agents of biological origin, medical devices, radiation-emitting products used by doctors and the consumer, cosmetics and animal feed. The agency began with a single chemist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1862 and now has a staff of approximately 9,100 employees and a budget of $1.294 billion, including chemists, pharmacologists, physicians, microbiologists, veterinarians, pharmacists, lawyers and so on."

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