FDA unveils strategic plan to protect and advance America's health.(Washington)

Food Institute Report, The, August, 2003

FDA outlined how it is taking new steps to protect and advance public health for America in a comprehensive five-part strategic action plan entitled "Protecting and Advancing America's Health: A Strategic Action Plan for the 21st Century." The plan, which sets some new specific actions and performance measures directly related to achieving FDA's public health mission, establishes a framework for achieving five broad priority goals for FDA. Among five parts of the plan:

* Efficient, Science-Based Risk Management. FDA's approach to efficient risk management requires the use of the most current biomedical, statistical, managerial and economic science. By employing principles and technologies that can reduce avoidable delays and cost in product approvals, by...

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