Working with the Food and Drug Administration FDA

The FDA is set up to protect the public from potentially dangerous foods and drugs and to assist in the evaluation of the therapeutic benefits of new drugs using the best available science. Its sole mission is to protect the general public. It is specifically prohibited from controlling the 

The head of the FDA is a political appointment, but this should not compromise standards and procedures. Efficient processing at the FDA can make drugs more easily approved, and that would be unfair in its implication that less care is being exercised if a particular FDA commissioner oversees a higher rate of approvals during the tenure of an administration sympathetic to industry. Society demanded quicker approval for AIDS drugs, and pressure is on the FDA to regulate both efficiently and objectively. 

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