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United States Food and Drug Administration

An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE concerned with the overall planning, promoting, and administering of programs pertaining to maintaining standards of quality of foods, drugs, therapeutic devices, etc.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE concerned with the overall planning, promoting, and administering of programs pertaining to maintaining standards of quality of foods, drugs, therapeutic devices, etc.

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Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • Food and Drug Administration
  • Food and Drug Administration (U.S.)
  • USFDA
  • United States Food, Drug Administration

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

add UNITED STATES; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry

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History Note

66(64)

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  1. I01w.409w.418w.750.600w.650w.760w
  2. N03w.540w.348w.500w.500.600w.650w.760w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. United States Food and Drug Administration. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014486. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014486
  2. United States Food and Drug Administration. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration
  3. United States Food and Drug Administration. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204711