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The Food and Drug Administration's flagship publication, FDA Consumer magazine, was named the Best National Magazine in the 2004 National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) Blue Pencil Competition.
In addition, three feature articles submitted by FDA Consumer staff writers won Awards of Excellence in the annual competition. The awards were announced May 12 in Austin, Texas, during the NAGC's annual banquet.
"One of FDA's strategic goals is to empower consumers, and FDA Consumer magazine provides Americans with precisely the kind of straightforward, practical information they need to make informed decisions about their health," said Sheila Dearybury Walcoff, Associate Commissioner for External Relations.
The subscription-based magazine's purpose is to inform and educate the public about FDA activities, the products the Agency regulates, and the relationship those products have with healthy living.
The impact of the magazine reaches beyond its subscribers. Feature articles from the magazine have been reprinted in other health- and science-related magazines. Some articles have also been reprinted in professional journals or distributed as reprints by Federal Citizen's Information Center in Pueblo, Colo. All are available online at FDA's Website www.fda.gov.
Published bimonthly, FDA Consumer is available for $14 annually. To subscribe online go to www.fda.gov/fdac/orderform/fdap.html or mail a check payable to the Superintendent of Documents to FDA Consumer, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954.
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