FDA Commissioner Hamburg's Six-Step Approach To Enforcement
This article was originally published in The Silver Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg outlined measures FDA will take to improve enforcement efforts at an Aug. 6 Food and Drug Law Institute meeting in Washington, D.C. She specified six steps:
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