Flashback Friday: How FDA is Changing its Regulation of Biotechnology

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Reprinted from BIONews, February/March 1996
HOW FDA IS CHANGING ITS REGULATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
By David A. Kessler, M.D.,  Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
For the last several years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has bee