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The Center for Drug Evaluation
and Research (CDER), which assures that safe and effective drugs are available to the
American people, has gone through a functional and organizational metamorphosis since it
began as a one-man operation to assess significant drug problems in the marketplace
on the eve of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act. In part, this change reflects the
evolution of drug law and the chemotherapeutic revolution over the 20th century--and the
concomitant changes in responsibilities of the Food and Drug Administration. But the
change also reflects external and internal decisions on how best to provide safe and
effective drugs to patients. Every branch of government, as well as other interests
affected by FDA's policies, have had a role in the way this agency regulates drugs. |
Gallery of Nostrums
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