{"id":7947,"date":"2020-04-06T07:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2020-04-06T07:51:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:51:40","slug":"mission-vs-organization-fda-bureaucracy-grows-79-since-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7947","title":{"rendered":"Mission vs. Organization: FDA Bureaucracy Grows 79% Since 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Edwards<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees the safety of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, foods, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The agency also regulates the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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During the COVID-19 crisis, the FDA has been more of a hindrance than a help. It put the battle weeks behind by <\/span>blocking<\/a> <\/span>the development of private?sector virus tests, and its regulations have slowed production of <\/span>hand sanitizer<\/a> <\/span>and <\/span>facemasks<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I noted <\/span>the other day<\/a> <\/span>that FDA employment has soared since 2007. What do all the new employees do? The table below shows that the FDA bureaucracy has expanded across the board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Total FDA employment increased 79 percent from 2007 to 2019. Part of the increase was due to new activities. For example, the FDA began regulating tobacco with the passage of a 2009 statute<\/a> <\/span>and now has almost 900 workers in that function.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Details about FDA\u2019s activities are in <\/span>this document<\/a>. One section is titled \u201cFostering Competition and Innovation,\u201d which is sadly ironic given the agency\u2019s blunder in monopolizing federal control over COVID-19 testing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Edwards: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees the safety of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, foods, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The agency also regulates the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco. During the COVID-19 crisis, the FDA has been more of a hindrance than a help. It put the battle weeks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions\/7948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}