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Food and Drug Administration:
Food and Drug Administration:
An agency of the Department of Health, and Human Services which is responsible for ensuring compliance with the amended federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. This agency must pass judgment on the safety of drugs, the labels affixed to drug packages, and all printed material accompanying a packaged drug before that drug may be introduced to interstate commerce. The law empowers the F.D.A. to pass on the efficacy of a new drug or pharmaceutical preparation and gives the agency ultimate jurisdiction over the clinical testing of a drug before it is approved for general sale and use. Prosecution of violation of the F.D. and C. Act is carried out by the Attorney General's Office on recommendation of the F.D.A.
Cf. U.S.P., Harrison Narcotic Act, Effective
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