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Food Safety And Security: What Tragedy Teaches Us About Our 100-Year-Old Food Laws, Caroline S. Dewaal
Food Safety And Security: What Tragedy Teaches Us About Our 100-Year-Old Food Laws, Caroline S. Dewaal
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The United States food safety system is antiquated and failing. The laws that form the foundation of our food protection and govern the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were enacted over 100 years ago. While some new powers were given to FDA with the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, funding has not kept pace. Safe Food International (SF), a coalition of consumer organizations from around the world, created a set of guidelines outlining an ideal national food safety program. The current system in the United States falls short of that goal. The outbreaks …
International Regulatory Harmonization: A New Era In Prescription Drug Approval, David W. Jordan
International Regulatory Harmonization: A New Era In Prescription Drug Approval, David W. Jordan
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Critics of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have asserted that the agency's process of reviewing new drugs has long been laden with inefficiency and waste and, as a result, new drugs are not made available to consumers on a timely basis. This Note considers the veracity of this claim by examining the history of prescription drug regulation in the United States and the current procedure by which new drugs are reviewed. This Note also addresses the limited extent to which the FDA has interacted with its foreign counterparts in assessing the safety and efficacy of new drugs and the …