TY  - JOUR
T1  - CAn the food and drug administration ensure that our pharmaceuticals are safely manufactured?
AU  - Hubbard WK
Y1  - 2009/10/12
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.304
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1655
EP  - 1656
VL  - 169
IS  - 18
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.304
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2009.304
ER  -