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Pure Food and Drugs


The regulation of vaccines, serums, and other biologic products, which includes the establishment of product standards and the licensing of manufacturers, previously carried out by the National Institutes of Health was transferred to the FDA's Bureau of Biologics in 1972, and in 1987 to the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research which became responsible for the continued safety, purity, potency, and efficacy of these products.

c. 1980


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