Word: fda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only the second time in its history, the Food and Drug Administration last week struck a physician's name from its approved list of researchers who are entitled to test new, investigational drugs on human subjects. The target of the FDA's action was Dr. Albert M. Kligman, a Philadelphia dermatologist, along with "all investigators associated with" three incorporated laboratories of which he is president and director...
Though the FDA's notice to vitamin makers and food processors reads like another of "GoGo Goddard's" sweeping attacks, the decision had actually been in the works for four years. The Government-backed Food and Nutrition Board decided four years ago that the term "minimum daily requirement" was widely misunderstood and abused. In its place, it proposed "Recommended Dietary Allowances" of eleven vitamins and six minerals, and last week the FDA finally put those recommendations into practice.*In almost every case the allowances are well below the previous "requirements...
...FDA also served notice that it intends...
Goddard went from labeling to advertising. In the past year, he said, the FDA found fault in ads run by nearly one-third of the members of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association. "Some advertising cases have been quite abusive of regulations. They have trumpeted results of favorable research and have not mentioned unfavorable research; they have puffed up what was insignificant clinical evidence; they have substituted emotional appeals for scientific ones." To Goddard, it was all a matter of tone-professional tone. "For example, no drug categorically 'relaxes both physical and emotional tension' all by itself. But a drug...
...reprimand would be interpreted as a blanket indictment, yet conceded that "nobody in that room wanted to be with firms that were responsible for submitting the data mentioned in the speech." On the other hand, a high official of the Health, Education and Welfare Department, which supervises FDA, found the speech "a good first draft-but a bit intemperate...