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FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products
Synonyms:
FDA; Food and Drug Administration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Food and Drug Administration" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("Food and Drug Administration" is a part of...):
Department of Health and Human Services; Health and Human Services; HHS (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979)
Context examples:
EXAMPLE(S): Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK; Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the USA; World Health Organization (WHO); Institutional Review Board (IRB); Ethics committee; Research ethics board.
(Oversight Authority, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
The device would require approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before becoming widely available.
(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)
The exact composition of Cancell/Entelev is unknown, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has listed the components as inositol, nitric acid, sodium sulfite, potassium hydroxide, sulfuric acid, and catechol.
(Cancell, NCI Thesaurus)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned the sale of dietary supplements that contain ma huang.
(Ma huang, NCI Dictionary)
The Food and Drug Administration also makes sure that drugs, medical devices, and equipment are safe and effective, and that blood for transfusions and transplant tissue are safe.
(Food and Drug Administration, NCI Dictionary)
A unique numeric code assigned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prescription drugs and insulin products manufactured, prepared, processed, or propagated by registered establishments for commercial distribution.
(FDA National Drug Code, NCI Thesaurus)
In the U.S., the government's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must approve any drug before it can be sold.
(Drug Safety, NIH)
A substance that has been tested in a laboratory and has gotten approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be tested in people.
(Experimental drug, NCI Dictionary)
They include the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS).
(Department of Health and Human Services, NCI Dictionary)
Common terminology criteria for adverse events (CTCAE) are used in study adverse event summaries and Investigational New Drug reports to the Food and Drug Administration.
(CDISC SDTM Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Event Grade Terminology V3.0, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
