FDA in the twenty-first century : the challenges of regulating drugs and new technologies / Holly Fernandez Lynch and I. Glenn Cohen.

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TextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)Content type:

text
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computer

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online resource

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9780231540070

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Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

363.1940973 23

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KF3871 .F34 2016

Summary: In its decades-long effort to assure the safety, efficacy and security of medicines and other products, the Food and Drug Administration has struggled with issues of funding, proper associations with industry and the balance between consumer choice and consumer protection. Today, these challenges are compounded by the pressures of globalization, the introduction of novel technologies and fast-evolving threats to public health. With essays by leading scholars and government and private industry experts, this book addresses perennial and new problems and the improvements the agency can make to better serve the public good.

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Previously issued in print: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In its decades-long effort to assure the safety, efficacy and security of medicines and other products, the Food and Drug Administration has struggled with issues of funding, proper associations with industry and the balance between consumer choice and consumer protection. Today, these challenges are compounded by the pressures of globalization, the introduction of novel technologies and fast-evolving threats to public health. With essays by leading scholars and government and private industry experts, this book addresses perennial and new problems and the improvements the agency can make to better serve the public good.

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FDA in the twenty-first century : the challenges of regulating drugs and new technologies / Holly Fernandez Lynch and I. Glenn Cohen.