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FDA Overview

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•At the heart of all FDA's regulatory activities is a judgment about whether a new product's benefits to users will outweigh its risks.
•Science-based, efficient risk management allows the agency to provide the most health promotion and protection at the least cost to the public.
•No regulated product is totally risk-free, so these judgments are important. FDA will allow a product to present more of a risk when its potential benefit is great -- especially for products used to treat serious, life-threatening conditions.
•Next, let's look a the product areas we regulate--

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