Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Government at Work - the F.D.A.
The Food and Drug Administration needs help.
How about diverting some of that frivilous pork project money?...
How about diverting some of that frivilous pork project money?...
I found this on the, Wall Street Journal editorial page:
"'The mission of getting safe and effective drugs to patients in a timely manner is currently threatened by inadequate expertise and capabilities,' the Science Board notes.
Particularly in complex and specialized fields like genomics and biotechnology medicine, the FDA lacks the basic competence 'to understand the impact of product use, to maintain ongoing currency with their evolution or to evaluate the sophisticated products produced' and 'to support innovation in the industries and markets that it regulates.'"
