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The Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII) is an alphanumeric identifier linked to a substance's molecular structure or descriptive information and is generated by the Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, caffeine products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines ...
The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (Public Act 105-115) [4] amended the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to require that the NIH create and operate a public information resource, which came to be called ClinicalTrials.gov, tracking drug efficacy studies resulting from approved Investigational ...
The MHRA and the US Food and Drug Administration were criticised in the 2012 book Bad Pharma, [43] and in 2004 by David Healy in evidence to the House of Commons Health Committee, [44] for having undergone regulatory capture, i.e. advancing the interests of the drug companies rather than the interests of the public.
OpenFDA is a project indexing and formatting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) data, and making it accessible to the public. The ultimate goal of enabling the data accessibility is to educate people and save lives. The currently provided API of accessing data is under beta version.
Structured Product Labeling (SPL) is a Health Level Seven International (HL7) standard which defines the content of human prescription drug labeling in an XML format. [1] The "drug labeling" includes all published material accompanying a drug, such as the Prescribing Information which contains a great deal of detailed information about the drug.
MedWatch is the Food and Drug Administration’s “Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program.” It interacts with the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS or AERS). MedWatch is used for reporting an adverse event or sentinel event. Founded in 1993, this system of voluntary reporting allows such information to be shared with ...
FDA posts status of the review as either without further questions (as a position of "no objection") or the petition is withdrawn by the applicant. [ 4 ] For substances used in food prior to January 1, 1958, a grandfather clause allows experience based on common use in food to be used in asserting an ingredient is safe under the conditions of ...