Food And Drug Administration

The Food and Drug Administration
Delores Ada
HCS 430
02/13/2012
Judith Kaplan

The Food and Drug Administration It is hard to imagine a world without regulations, especially concerning the food we consume, the medical products we use, and the medications we must take. Every day individuals buy food products, pay for medications and purchase medical supplies without giving any thought as to how these items were made available. The Food and Drug Administration ensures the entire nation is protected from bad food products and pharmaceuticals that are unsafe for the public’s use. Before the existence of the Food and Drug Administration or FDA there were little regulations on food, and pharmaceuticals.
The History of the Food and Drug…show more content…
Deyton, 2010). The new law restricts the distribution of free samples of tobacco products such as cigarettes in places were minors are allowed to enter, fruit flavored or candy cigarettes can no longer be sold, and set a new minimum for cigarette packs at 20 cigarettes per pack (L. Deyton, 2010). The new regulations set forth by the FDA were implemented to lower the number of tobacco users, educate the public on the use of tobacco and the side effects, and apply evidence produced by science to control the use of tobacco products (L. Deyton,…show more content…
It is important to have agencies like the FDA to ensure the products we are using are safe. Regulations can be cumbersome and costly however, they are necessary to protect the public from harm’s way. Protecting our health is the most important job of the federal government. Without regulation and over site companies would be allowed to produce inferior and harmful products.

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