Product Development of Probiotics as Biological Drugs
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Development of probiotics as biologic drugs.
In the United States, probiotics that are intended to be used to diagnose, cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent disease in humans or other animals and that affect the structure or the function of the body are considered to be drugs. This article provides a brief overview of the historical basis of US regulation of drugs and biologics and explores the legal, regulatory, and policy considerations fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/523325