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US FDA near-term priorities: innovation, access, cGMPs, consumer protection.

Publication: Pharma Marketletter
Publication Date: 09-AUG-04 		Format: Online - approximately 731 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: US FDA near-term priorities: innovation, access, cGMPs, consumer protection.(current Good Manufacturing Practices )

Article Excerpt
The US Food and Drug Administration of today accepts not only the responsibility of ensuring the suitability of the products it regulates but also of seeking solutions to current critical public health challenges, the agency's Acting Commissioner, Lester Crawford, has said.

"For example, we know that, in the interest of absolute safety, FDA can become an impediment to the development of products essential to medical progress," he told a Newsmaker Luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington DC, at which he outlined the FDA's priorities and anticipated major actions over the next six months, focusing on:

Technology development and innovation: - as the chairman of a Department...



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