Agency needs to adopt new tools to do its job in the 21st century.
Peter Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and a former FDA associate commissioner, argues that as the FDA enters its second hundred years, its mission must change to both protect and advance the public health. And in order to do that, the agency that regulates upwards of 25 percent of the U.S. economy needs new tools, new expertise and more funding.
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