Talk:Food and Drug Administration

Move article to US Food and Drug Administration
I think a better title should be considered for the article, "Food and Drug Administration" sounds odd and US-centric. Notice that it was suggested before (see above) that the article should be moved to "United States Food and Drug Administration". I would vote for the more simple "US Food and Drug Administration". 90.184.5.10 (talk) 00:00, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * "Food and Drug Administration" is the actual name of the organization. There is no other organization with this name in any other country. Per WP:TITLE Wikipedia uses the actual name of things for the article title unless there is a reason to differentiate multiple items with the same name.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)  12:56, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
 * A good point is that "FDA" to a very large extent has become synonymous with the US Food and Drug Administration. Even so, it turns out that there are other FDAs around, for instance the Thai FDA and the Saudi Food & Drug Authority. Also, concerning the actual name used by the US FDA, the headline of the website says: "U.S. Food and Drug Administration". If you live in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, etc., I am sure that the term "Food and Drug Administration" is understood simply as a shortening of "U.S. Food and Drug Administration" but I would think that other English speakers/readers find it odd that "Food and Drug Administration" links directly to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration article instead of, for instance, a disambiguation page. --90.185.131.137 (talk) 15:30, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

History of the FDA
Can anyone offer a reason or explanation as to why the history presented in this article differs from the history found on the FDA's own website? (http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/default.htm) Jdevola (talk) 01:28, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Anyone may copy any or all of that history into this article if it improves the Wikipedia article. Wikipedia will differ because the FDA's own history of itself is not the only perspective of the history of the FDA.


 *  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  12:52, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Moved content about regulation over food and dietary supplements
There was a section of this article about the Regulation of food and dietary supplements by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but that concept has its own article, and the content here was being developed independently of that article. I moved content here to the talkpage there, and I hope that from there it can be integrated into that article. If anyone has comments about this, please bring them to Talk:Regulation of food and dietary supplements by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  Blue Rasberry  (talk)  19:09, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Merger Proposal
I propose merging Criticism of the Food and Drug Administration with Food and Drug Administration to create a more NPOV article. if the article becomes to long from the merge, we can split it other ways besides (Criticism vs non criticism )Bryce Carmony (talk) 23:09, 12 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Oppose - the criticism article was split for size reasons after a proper discussion and with a clear consensus. andy (talk) 19:18, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

history- USDA / Dept. of Health and Human Services
This important information, from the FDA website, is missing from the article. The FDA was transferred from the USDA to the Federal Security Agency in 1940 and to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1953, which became the Department of Health and Human Services in 1979. --Naytz (talk) 20:16, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Major revision to Organization section (rationale)
I severely cut back the Organization section and update it based on the FDA's website. My main rationale is that there is little need for the deep org information unless you have some information (cited info) to add to a deep org branch -- which I did for one of the directors of a deep org branch. I also wanted to try out the Tree list functionality, and I think this does provide some added attractiveness to the presentation. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 03:50, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

Article Evaluation
There are a few details that would improve this article in a variety of ways. While reading the article I realized that the content of the articles begins with a description of FDA but it does not address the origination of the FDA. A major improvement that I would add to this article is a history section answering questions like; who began FDA and why specifically was it invented? Was the environment being put at risk? or was it just something citizens thought needed to be put in place? This questions are unanswered questions and questions that have not been addressed in the article. Also in the scope and budget section I would recommend that the section expands on who actually regulates the budget and how was the budget originated.

TrishaTidwell (talk) 16:43, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

What is the Office of Biotechnology?
Our article Henry I. Miller states (but does not source) that Miller has worked for FDA in various capacities, and, in particular, that he between 1989 and 1993 was "the founding director of FDA's Office of Biotechnology". Similar claims can be found in background presentations for articles written by Miller.

Can anyone tell me more about this office? It is not enumerated in the present FDA section lists in our pages. Does it exist, or did it exist (and, if so, until when); or are the claims in the Miller article possibly not quite correct? If the FDA Office of Biotechnology still exists, then, where does it belong organisatorically to-day? Does it have a web-page? JoergenB (talk) 04:33, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

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using sucralose in children's medication
Using sucralose or any sugar substitute in medical items like Children Benadryl or Pedialyte or any medically used products could present a danger to some not able to tolerate the sugar substitute. Even in very small amounts. In my case, I become very nauseated with a very tiny amount of any product containing any sugar sub. including stevia. 2603:8081:6103:6E00:9DA0:5E23:DB1F:C9D9 (talk) 18:05, 3 June 2024 (UTC)