¶ Food and Drug Administration
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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) responsible for regulation of a wide range of food and medical products.
¶ History
On June 27, 2017, the FDA signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "to facilitate existing and new mutually agreed upon programs and activities and to carry out their common goal to improve public health by stimulating and fostering medical product innovation and enabling medical product development."[1][2]
¶ COVID-19
On July 13, 2022, the FDA granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine.[3]
¶ Collaborators
The FDA has signed memoranda of understanding with:[1:1]
- Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Alliance of Multicultural Physicians
- American Association for Cancer Research
- American Association of Veterinary State Boards
- American Chemical Society
- American College of Toxicity (ACT)
- American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- American Nurses Association
- American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
- American Society of Nephrology
- AOAC
- Association of Healthcare Resource and Materials Management
- Avicenna Alliance
- Banfield Pet Hospital
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Blacks in Government (BIG)
- CloudWave
- Conference for Food Protection (CFP)
- Critical Path Institute
- Food and Drug Administration Alumni Association (FDAAA)
- Heads of the European Radiological protection Competent Authorities (HERCA)
- Healheo360
- Health and Environmental Sciences Institute
- Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center
- Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA)
- Independent Laboratories Institute
- Inova Heart and Vascular Institute
- Institute for Safe Medication Practices
- Institute of Quantitative Systems Pharmacology
- Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference
- Karolinska Institute
- MedISAO
- Medscape
- National Association of Attorneys General
- National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments
- National Council for Prescription Drug Programs
- National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
- National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
- National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU)
- Oncology Nursing Society
- Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration
- Society for Clinical Research Sites
- Society of Toxicology
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Stockholm County Healthcare Services
- Truth Initiative
- United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
- Uppsala Monitoring Centre
- Washington Adventist Hospital
- WebMD
¶ Freedom of information
The FDA publishes a list of documents frequently requested under Freedom of Information on a webpage titled "Electronic Reading Room."[4]
¶ External links
¶ Further reading
- November 30, 2023: "Conflicts of Interest: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration" on White Rose Intelligence, originally published by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance
Office of the Commissioner. (2023, October 16). Non-Profit and Other MOUs. Food and Drug Administration. https://web.archive.org/web/20231028062431/https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-memoranda-understanding/non-profit-and-other-mous ↩︎ ↩︎
Demasi, M. (2023, October 4). FDA ties with Gates Foundation. Substack. http://archive.today/2023.10.22-180219/https://maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/fda-ties-with-gates-foundation ↩︎
Capobianco, A. (2022, July 13). Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Emergency Use of Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted. Food and Drug Administration. https://web.archive.org/web/20220713201410/https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-emergency-use-novavax-covid-19-vaccine-adjuvanted ↩︎
Office of Regulatory Affairs. (2023, May 22). Electronic Reading Room. Food and Drug Administration. https://web.archive.org/web/20230621191228/https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/freedom-information/electronic-reading-room ↩︎