RT Journal
A1 Hubbard WK
T1 CAn the food and drug administration ensure that our pharmaceuticals are safely manufactured?
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2009
FD October 12
VO 169
IS 18
SP 1655
OP 1656
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.304
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2009.304
AB 
Since the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA’s) drug review system was created in 1938, FDA scientists have approved over 3000 drugs. And that system has withstood the test of time. Most of those drugs remain on the market as safe and effective therapies. Today, virtually every disease has some effective drug treatment and many once-serious medical scourges have been reduced by pharmaceuticals to manageable ailments. As a result of that record of success, the FDA drug regulatory system has become the worldwide gold standard by which drugs are developed, tested, and approved for use in the general public. But no system is perfect, and from its inception the regulation of drugs has been the subject of debate.