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Research Paper: The Food And Drug Administration

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The Food and Drug Administration is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA regulates more than one trillion dollars’ worth of consumer goods. The FDA has many responsibilities including overseeing the production of safe food and the production of medicine. The FDA is responsible for making sure that everything that is being put into our bodies by distributors is safe. Science is also a very large part of the FDA. They always have to have scientific evidence to back up products claims. The FDA has thousands of scientists preforming tests on all of the new products pending to be released. Some of these scientist look at samples to see if products are contaminated with illegal substances. Some

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