FOI reading room added to remodeled www.fda.gov

FDA Consumer, Jan-Feb, 1998

A new electronic Freedom of Information

Act "reading room" is part of

FDA's expanded and redesigned Website

at www.fda.gov.

Internet users can now directly access

such documents as warning letters,

inspection operation manuals, monthly

import detention lists, medical device

reports, and other often-requested materials

without having to go through the

time and paperwork of filing a traditional

FOI request. Users can reach the

Electronic Freedom of Information

Reading Room directly from the FDA

homepage.

FDA has also revised its homepage to

include a greatly expanded index and

special menus for such groups as

consumers, health professionals, and

industry. (For a quick peek at FDA's new

homepage, see inside back cover.)