Overcautious FDA has lost its way
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Overcautious FDA has lost its way.
Five years after the passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, little progress has been made in the effort to regulate the US tobacco industry and advance the public health goals of tobacco control. Legal challenges by the tobacco industry, and evidence of political interference from the White House have resulted in the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) overcautiou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tobacco Control
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0964-4563,1468-3318
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-051695