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One of camphor s most serious disadvantages as a medicinal product is that it is poisonous. Drinking straight camphorated oil can kill a person. In smaller doses, it can cause mental confusion, irritability, jerky movements of the arms and legs, neuromuscular hyperactivity, and seizures. Symptoms can appear between five and ninety minutes after swallowing the camphor. In 1980, the United States Food and Drug Administration limited the amount of camphor allowed in consumer products to 11 percent. It also banned products that contain concentrated camphor, such as camphorated oil and camphorated liniment. 

Calorie saver. The Food and Drug Administration limits intake of sodium cyclamate (CeHi2NS03Na, 201 g/mole, heat of combustion 771 kcal/mole) to no more than 168 mg/day person. What is the saving in Calories when the cyclamate (5 times sweeter than sucrose) is substituted for 840 mg sucrose (table sugar), CiaHjgOii, 342 g/mole, heat of combustion 1350 kcal/mole ... 

With a prescriptive approach to quality assessment, duplicate samples, blanks, standards, and spike recoveries are measured following a specific protocol. The result for each analysis is then compared with a single predetermined limit. If this limit is exceeded, an appropriate corrective action is taken. Prescriptive approaches to quality assurance are common for programs and laboratories subject to federal regulation. For example, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) specifies quality assurance practices that must be followed by laboratories analyzing products regulated by the FDA. 

In 1984 the use of nitrile resins was re-approved by the Food and Drugs Administration with speeifie limits on the level of residual unreacted monomer. 

Because there are a limited number of antiviral drug s and more than 200 viral diseases, the primary health care provider may decide to prescribe an antiviral drug for an unlabeled use even though documentation of its effectiveness is lacking. Approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is necessary for a drug to be prescribed. On occasion, the use of a drug for a specific dis-... 

Until now there has been no effective technology for reducing groundwater mercury to two parts per billion, as required by the maximum contamination limit for drinking water established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. EPA. 

Oxytetracycline is a broad-spectrum antibiotic, which has been used worldwide in veterinary medicine and in aquaculture for the prevention and treatment of disease and as feed additives to promote growth. The maximum residue limits (MRLs) of OTC and relative substances as described by the US Food and Drug Administration [66] and European Union [67] are presented in Table 4. 

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An examination of treated cacao beans for toxic residues of Hanane showed that no Hanane was detectable chemically. Further analyses indicated that Hanane residue in no case exceeded 0.1 p.p.m., a limit tentatively set by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (32). However, until more complete evidence has been accumulated about the use of this type of insecticide, there will remain some doubt concerning its application to cacao. 

Concentrated bromomethane can be very dangerous, so the ERA allows only licensed professional fumigators to buy or use bromomethane. The government does not have any regulations at present about how much bromomethane can be present in outdoor air or water, but ERA requires water companies to test for this chemical in their water. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set limits of 125- 400 parts of bromide per million parts of food (ppm) for how much bromide may remain in food after the food is treated with bromomethane. The Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) limits the average level of bromomethane in workplace air to 5 ppm, and recommends that exposures be reduced to the lowest level feasible. 

Successful vaccines have several important properties such as safety, effectiveness, low cost per dose, and ease of preparation. Vaccines, whether peptide, protein, or DNA, have limited potency without codelivery with an adjuvant and/or a specialized delivery system (11). There is currently a lack of safe, nontoxic, effective. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved vaccine adjuvants capable of stimulating cellular (Thl) immunity (12). Most potent immune activators are also toxic at relatively low doses and cannot, therefore, be successfully used as adjuvants (12). 

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