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FDA

[ef-dee-ey]

noun

U.S. Government.
  1. Food and Drug Administration: a division of the Department of Health and Human Services that protects the public against impure and unsafe foods, drugs, and cosmetics.



FDA

abbreviation

  1. Food and Drug Administration: a federal agency responsible for monitoring trading and safety standards in the food and drug industries

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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In ‘Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine,’ former FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler offers a comprehensive guide to weight loss.

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A backer with deep pockets posits that the device never would’ve been recalled with his powerful connections at the FDA.

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The Supreme Court upheld access to the drug for early pregnancies under previous FDA regulations last year, but it has remained a target of antiabortion conservatives.

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However, the FDA said freezing doesn’t kill all harmful germs, so the safest route is to thoroughly cook your seafood.

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In fact, in 2015 the FDA approved the first and only cancer-killing virus, a herpes virus used for treatment of a kind of late-stage skin cancer, where there are few conventional options.

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