The Food and Drug Administration

New food safety initiatives in the Food and Drug Administration.

Concern over the presence of veterinary drug residues in food has been increasing world wide. Because of this concern the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has been involved on an international basis in efforts to develop food safety standards for veterinary drugs. The major thrust of the Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods (CC/RVDF) has be...

Food and Drug Administration regulation of food safety.

The US Food and Drug Administration and probiotics: regulatory categorization.

Probiotics are living microorganisms that, when consumed, have the potential to confer a beneficial health effect. Unfortunately for purveyors of probiotic products, the system of regulation delineated in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is anything but "one size fits all." How a probiotic product is used or is intended to be used will govern the regulatory category or categories that the US Fo...

the Food and Drug Administration and First Amendment Issues

The Regulatory Studies Program (RSP) of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University is dedicated to advancing knowledge of the impact of regulation on society. As part of its mission, RSP conducts careful and independent analyses employing contemporary economic scholarship to assess rulemaking proposals from the perspective of the public interest. Thus, this comment on the Food and Drug Admi...

Recent Actions by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)