Food And Drug Administration ( Fda )

Institutional Powers have always affected my life in many ways. The main institutional power that control both positive and negative consequences of my life would be the FDA the Food and Drug Administration. The first way they control my life is they regulate all human and veterinary drugs in our country. Second, the FDA is responsible for protecting the public health and products. Lastly, they supply and control the entire United States Food supply. I believe that this specific governmental institutional power is 100% the authority over my life. The FDA needs to care more about the general health of the public and take into consideration how they play a major factor in the health of our bodies, minds, and environment as well.

For my research on a Federal Agency i chose the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).The reason i decided to choose this is because food and drugs or medication are involved in our daily lives.The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for the safety of the people.They are the main people that we rely on for the safety of good food and medication.The FDA is who allows the medication and food to go out on stores to be sold,they make sure this are safe for use and consumption by the people.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is best known for its role on protecting the health of the public by making sure that food, medications are safe and effective. Especially when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry, its mission is to regulate pharmaceutical manufacturers, as well as the drug approval process. However, in the recent years, many arguments and controversy regarding drug development and regulation have risen. Drug advertisements make false and misleading claims, products are being put out on the market without any proof of safety, causing many unwanted incidents such as the Avandia incident and Vioxx incident, which could have been prevented in the first place.

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most powerful and greedy industries in our country, with a goal to make as large a profit as possible, at the expense of the sick.

Food and drug administration is a department of U.S health and human services. It’s responsibility is to test the safety and efficacy of new drugs entering the market as well as to make sure that these medicines are quickly accessible to people. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act has been passed in 1938 to ensure that foods other than meat, poultry and fish are clinically hygienic and safe to eat. This act also requires that the food should be labelled according to its content. (FDA.org) Drugs and tobacco are also regulated by FDA and in 1996, FDA strictly regulated the use of tobacco products like nicotine, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, by children and adolescents because of the increase in diseases prevalence and tobacco addiction. Annually 40000 deaths are attributable to its use and most of them are of premature. Therefore the goal of FDA is to stop the tobacco addiction by minors and prevent the deaths and diseases due to nicotine addiction. (FDA vs Brown, n.d) This essay will cover the food and drug administration’s role in under and over regulating drugs and medicines and how it effects our economy, health care system and patients health and safety.

United States spending on healthcare amounted to $2.9 trillion in 2013. This cost breaks down to $9,255 per person

PrEP treatment is taken in the form of a pill, called Truvada. Truvada is a combination of two HIV medications (tenofovir and emtricitabine). Truvadais a fairly new drug. It was approved for human use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and allowed clinical practice guidelines for usage in the America by the U.S. Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in May 2014. In order for Truvada to be effective, users of PrEP must adhere to taking one pill every day. They must also meet with their healthcare provider every three months to follow up. It is imperative that people who have been exposed to HIV by way of intravenous drugs use or sex seek PrEP to prevent the virus from spreading through the body.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the governmental division that protects the public’s health by guaranteeing food, drugs, and medical devices are safe and effective. It assures that dietary supplements and cosmetics are well labeled, regulates tobacco, protects the users from electronic product radiation, among others.

The FDA behaves in ways that enhance its reputation for protecting consumer safety and public health. As gauged by public opinion polls, the FDA remains one of the most popular agencies in government, regularly securing 70 percent or greater “approval” of its performance among sampled respondents.5 Buttressing this popularity are powerful symbolic lessons of history: The FDA is widely credited with saving thousands of American lives in its response to the sulfanilamide tragedy of 1937 and the thalidomide scandal of 1959–1961.6 Congress dramatically strengthened pharmaceutical regulations after each of these events. Thereby whether or not the agency deserves it, the FDA clearly possesses a reputation for protecting public health and consumer safety.

Look around your community and look; most people are living unhealthy tonic lives. Common diseases like diabetes, obesity and cancer are more prevalent than they were in the past by an astoundingly large amount. Any thinking person must ask themselves are they getting the most of life? Although people may attain riches, fame, and honor all of it is like garbage if you’re unhealthy. You cannot buy health and happiness. Even if someone is very successful it doesn’t mean that this person is happy and healthy! Consumers thus should be concerned what they put in their bodies. The Food and Drug Administration is regulating food, but people are sicker now than they ever have been. Not only them, but the big pharmaceutical companies also play a role in this giving drugs to people to help their problems but end up with a host of other problems from their fix. With this project I hope to show how incompetent the Food and Drug Administration is by unveiling what synthetic vitamins really are, the chemicals used, and the comparison of how other countries handle the same food tampering.

Do you know what you eat every day? What chemicals are approved by the Food and Drug Administration, but are banned or heavily regulated in other countries for health reasons? Most people want to believe they do, but are shocked to find the truth. It has been estimated that seventy five to eighty percent of the foods and drinks sold in stores have been genetically modified (About Genetically Engineered Foods). Genetically modified food, or GMO’s, are a major health risk, and should be clearly labeled by companies, if not banned. My mother is in stage four kidney failure, meaning that she only has about fourteen percent of her kidney function left. She takes about half a dozen medicines a day for pain, hormones, and vitamins. She has been put on a vegan diet, a grain free diet, and was suggested a marine diet. No matter what she tried nothing seemed to help her kidneys or pain. Over the summer of 2013, for fourteen days, my parents, sister, her boyfriend, and I all went to Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a small country in Central America. In Costa Rica, the food was caught fresh, and fruits and vegetables were picked daily in the local garden. After two days being in Costa Rica my mother only had to take two pills for hormones. Her pain dramatically reduced, her migraines went away, and her kidneys could process all the food without problems. She ate meat, fish, bread, and anything she wanted with no side effects. The main difference between the food in the United States and the

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through regulating pharmaceutical drugs, biologics and medical device in context to granting approvals for marketing authorization, surveillance of the clinical trial study of the drug, post-marketing surveillance of the medical product, etc. The Pharmaceutical companies seek for FDA approval for a new drug to be marketed through a long process. This process starts with applying an application known as an investigational new drug application (IND) to start clinical trials to enroll a group of patients believed to benefit from the investigational product, and to approve that drug is safe effective.

There are many aspects of the Food and Drug Administration’s current regulations that are of great concern to many. For instance, the regulation of GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, is a largely debated subject, especially in relation to genetically modified food, or GM food. As described by nongmoproject.com, “GMOs, or “genetically modified organisms,” are plants or animals that have been genetically engineered with DNA from bacteria, viruses, or other plants and animals. These experimental combinations of genes from different species cannot occur in nature or in traditional crossbreeding.” Most of the American population may not even realize this, but according to nongmoproject.com: “In the U.S., GMOs are in as much as 80% of

Chapter IV explains that not everyone in the healthcare profession is permitted to dispense medicine without a physician order, there are regulations and precautions that must be observed in order to prevent misunderstandings. It is very important to see out any situations that the patient may have that prevents them from healthcare whether it is transportation, medicine allergies or disabilities. According to a U.S Food and Drug Administration article, a medication error is "any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer. Such events may be related to professional practice, health care products, procedures,

In the United States, a drug can only be advertised legally after being approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Once attaining at least one FDA-approved use, physicians can prescribe a drug for other unapproved uses, based on their clinical judgment; this is referred to as “off-label use” (McCambridge, 2008). In general, marketing drugs for off-label uses is illegal; however, pharmaceutical companies have gone to various lengths within their legal rights to accomplish exactly that.