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Biomedical Research


Testing vaccines and serums for purity and potency. The National Institutes of Health played a leading role in the development and regulation of biologic products that have protected the lives of millions of Americans from 1903, when the 1902 Biologics Control Act became effective, until the transfer of these regulatory functions to the Food and Drug Administration in 1972.

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