The FDA at work: cutting-edge science promoting public health.(Cover story)

From: FDA Consumer | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Hilts, Philip J. | Copyright information

The Food and Drug Administration is a government body with a presence far beyond its size. That is because it is not just an organization, but an idea. It was conceived a century ago to address a problem of modern society, and the creation has proved vital. There is now no democratic society that does not employ a body like it.

At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, there was revolution in Europe and revolt in America as well, against capitalism and th...

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