FDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does FDA mean? 

• FDA (noun)
  The noun FDA has 1 sense:

1. a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products

  Familiarity information: FDA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

FDA; Food and Drug Administration

Hypernyms ("FDA" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("FDA" is a part of...):

Department of Health and Human Services; Health and Human Services; HHS (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979)

 Context examples 

Number assigned to an action reported to FDA under 21 USC 260(f).

(Corrective Action Number, NCI Thesaurus)

DARs are required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

(DAR, NCI Dictionary)

Health care professional other than listed in section D5 of FDA MedWatch form 3500A.

(Other Health Care Professional, NCI Thesaurus)

There are the more than 100 excipient colors approved by the FDA for pharmaceutical use.

(Color Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)

From: Pharmacogenomic Data Submissions, FDA Guidance for Industry

(Pharmacogenetic Test, Food and Drug Administration)

Mandated by the FDA Modernization Act of 1997.

(Clinical Trials Database, NCI Thesaurus)

They include the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS).

(Department of Health and Human Services, NCI Dictionary)

Terminology used in Individual Case Safety Reports to specify a type of device usage, section H8 of FDA MedWatch Form.

(Device Usage ICSR Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

In the U.S., the government's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must approve any drug before it can be sold.

(Drug Safety, NIH)

The submission of a DMF is not required by law or FDA regulation.

(Drug Master File, Food and Drug Administration)