Food and Drug Administration

Food and Drug Administration

Linda Taylor

HCS 430

June 18, 2012

Melissa Borrelli

Food and Drug Administration

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the regulatory agency solely responsible for protecting public health. Promoting public health is another aspect of this agency. Protecting and promoting the public health is through the supervision and regulation of food, tobacco, dietary supplements, name brand, non-brand prescriptions, and pharmaceutical drugs (U.S. Food and Drug Administration History, 2012). Other products are in this line-up for regulation, but these are just a few on that list of products. This agency keeps a close watch on the safety of the food that goes out to people for consumption, and this is the same for the prescription drugs. These aspects are just a part of the day-to-day life of an FDA employee. The responsibilities of the employees is very important, the FDA must make sure the employees are doing the best job possible.

Background

The FDA is a public health agency that makes sure the food people eat and the prescriptions people take are safe for consumption. The FDA grew into the big organization it is today from a small one chemist agency back in 1862 (U.S. Food and Drug Administration History, 2012). This big organization has a staff of many medical personnel spread out over the United States. When a new application for a human drug comes into any of the office locations, one medical personnel will review this application. Some of the other aspects that the FDA reviews are medical devices, additives that go in food and color, baby formulas, and the drugs that veterinarians buy for animals (U.S. Food and Drug Administration History, 2012). Importing, transporting, storage, and sale of these products is just as important as the manufacturing process that the FDA will monitor.

With the changes that have taken place at the FDA over the past number of years the employees, and the...