New Year's resolutions for FDA.

Food Processing, February, 1992 by Van Wagner, Lisa R.

Commissioner David Kessler outlined his plans for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the Food and Drug Law Institute. He has created a new team of officials to facilitate his goals for making the FDA a more decisive agency. The agency will also move into new, more centralized and efficient quarters. Dr. Kessler wants the FDA to be based on scientific principles and will work with other agencies and research institutions to that end. Some of the new team members spoke about the agency's emphasis on promptness and vigorous enforcement of regulations.

Strong enforcement, expeditious evaluation of important new products, dissemination of accurate information, and making the Food & Drug Administration a decisive agency--these are Commissioner David Kessler's four main...

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