Drug approval process, food label win accolades

FDA Consumer, Jan-Feb, 1998

Quicker and more new drug approvals

and the design of food labeling's Nutrition

Facts panel garnered two recent

awards for FDA.

The Innovations in American Government

Awards Program, sponsored by the

Ford Foundation and Harvard

University's John F. Kennedy School of

Government, recognized the agency for

its efforts to speed the review of, and

access to, new medicines. In addition to

cutting approval times nearly in half, the

agency has doubled the number of new

drugs approved in a year.

The Nutrition Facts panel, now found

on virtually all food labels, was tapped

for the Presidential Design Achievement

Award because of its useful, consumer-friendly

design. The award recognizes

exemplary achievements in federal design

in such areas as architecture, interior

design, urban planning, and graphic

design.

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