Word: fda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FDA requires doctors to screen all donor blood for the virus before transfusion...
Cyclosporin A was developed four years ago and has been used by a handful of hospitals since then. It was formally approved by the FDA in November, 1983, and has been credited with improved success rates in liver, kidney, and heart transplants...
...large, the Administration's efforts to loosen up the FDA have been foiled by career bureaucrats adhering to the agency's established habits of testing and enforcement. Says Peter Hutt, a former FDA general counsel: "It's simplistic to think that a President or an Administration can turn around an agency when you're dealing with one with a history and tradition like FDA. You can't change that easily, which is both a great weakness and a great strength...
...journey since being accidentally discovered in 1965 by a Searle scientist researching an ulcer drug. Aspartame-sweetened Diet Rite and diet Coke have already been sold in Canada, and diet Coke has also quenched thirsts in Ireland and Scandinavia, but the U.S. introduction had been held up by the FDA, which was wary after its approval years earlier of cyclamates and saccharin. Aspartame won FDA acceptance in 1974, only to be pulled back after some scientists voiced concern that the substance might cause brain damage...
After two years of research, a panel concluded that the studies were sound. Other reviews were conducted by a board of inquiry made up of three scientists from outside the FDA. In 1981 approval was granted for aspartame's use in such items as General Foods' Kool-Aid and Searle's table-sugar substitute, Equal. Last month, describing aspartame as "one of the most tested food additives ever evaluated by the FDA," the agency ruled it safe as a soft-drink sweetener after no ill effects showed up in people who had consumed five times the recommended...