Health administration

The Food and Drug Administration, established June 30th 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley, is an essential part of our federal government. It began after the Food and Drug act was passed in 1906. It was intended to regulate misbranded food and drugs (The History of FDA's Fight for Consumer Protection and Public Health) and has evolved into what it is now, regulating everything from food to supplements to cosmetics to pacemakers. The FDA consists of one commissioner and…

HACCP is a food safety method used internationally, U.S. Food and Drug Administration defined HACC as a management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological, chemical, and physical hazards from raw material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing, distribution and consumption…

In the text, Issues in Economics today, Robert Guell states that in 2009 prescription drugs amounted to 10% of all U.S. health spending. When a new medication is developed it is issued a patent .A patent allows the inventor to have exclusive rights to sell the product, thus creating a monopoly. These monopolies can be more important on certain types of drugs. Orphan drugs or drugs that treat diseases that only a small number of people suffer from are granted longer patents. Without the longer…

the Farm Security Administration, embarked on a nationwide quest to document, collect and create a pictorial record of American life during the 1930s and 1940s. Spanning all fifty states, the photographers produced more than 175,000 black and white negatives, crafting one of the most immense and important photographic compositions in American history. Created by the federal government, the photography project spanned several government agencies, from the Resettlement Administration, the Farm…

The need for a governmental body to ensure the safety of consumers from food and drug products brought about the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Since 1906 the FDA has played a key role in regulating essential products such as seafood, vegetable produce, food, additives, drugs, and even tobacco products to some extent. Programs like HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) ensures food safety through verification procedures throughout production. For drug regulation,…

advertising has not always been legal, says Bryan A. Liang and Tim K. Mackey in “It’s Time to Shine the Light on Direct-to-Consumer Advertising”, direct-to-consumer advertising “experienced rapid growth in the United States when the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first liberalized its use in the 1980s and 1990s. An estimated 330% rise in DTCA spending from 1996 to 2005…

Costly medication is sometimes prescribe by healthcare providers with no benefits to the patient’s health. This raises an ethical concern because the patients’ health is in jeopardy for taking medications that they do not need and they are now burden with the cost of that prescription drug. Often times, there is pressure on healthcare providers from the big pharmaceutical companies to sell their drugs to patients. Leonard J. Weber, a professor at the University of Detroit, talks about the ethics…

role of pharmaceutical companies in constructing a false disorder against which women can measure the status of their sexual lives. For nine years, Canner follows the company Vivas and their attempt to get a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that combats the newly-labeled Female Sexual Dysfunction. She reveals pharmaceutical interests and the way they are intertwined in the public’s perception of healthy and “normal”. The film is focused mainly on the pharmaceutical company…

Food and Drug Administration FDA, http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm397711.htm The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency that regulates food and supplements as well many more items. The FDA, provides an online website that provides information on numerous topics, like for example artificial sweeteners. With the help of the FDA, there is information provided to us the public. Through this website we know what artificial sweeteners are and if they are safe. There is a…

other tobacco products is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety efficacy and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation (retrieved from http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/default.htm). From this description the main purpose of the FDA seems to be to protect people’s health and making sure that the food we eat,…