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	<title>FDA Voice &#187; 2012 &#187; December</title>
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		<title>New Drug Attacks Resistant TB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. Having seen first-hand the threat to public health posed by multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB), which cannot be cured by many of the most powerful drugs usually used to treat the disease, I’m pleased that &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/new-drug-attacks-resistant-tb/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>FDA Writing New Chapters in Food Safety History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Michael R. Taylor, J.D. Yesterday, Sunland Inc. entered into a court ordered agreement imposing requirements that must be complied with if the company is to operate. This consent decree follows FDA’s suspension of Sunland’s food facility registration in November &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/fda-writing-new-chapters-in-food-safety-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/fda-writing-new-chapters-in-food-safety-history/</link>
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		<title>Strategies for More Successful Drug Trials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Bob Temple, M.D. In recent months, drug developers have succeeded in bringing important drugs to market for cystic fibrosis, cancer and other conditions by employing strategies for achieving greater clinical trial success. Today FDA is issuing a draft guidance &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/strategies-for-more-successful-drug-trials/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/strategies-for-more-successful-drug-trials/</link>
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		<title>Improving the World through Improved Food Safety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. Food safety may seem an unusual issue for a lending institution created to encourage growth and reduce poverty in developing countries. The World Bank, however, rightly notes that food safety is not only about public &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/improving-the-world-through-improved-food-safety/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/improving-the-world-through-improved-food-safety/</link>
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		<title>A New Partnership with New Zealand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Deborah M. Autor, J.D. and Michael R. Taylor, J.D. This week, for the first time, FDA and New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries recognized each other’s food safety systems as providing a comparable degree of food safety assurance at &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/a-new-partnership-with-new-zealand/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/a-new-partnership-with-new-zealand/</link>
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		<title>U.S. and Canada Working Together To Provide Access to Needed Veterinary Drugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[en  français By: Bernadette Dunham, D.V.M, Ph.D. and Murray M. Lumpkin, M.D., M.Sc. The first simultaneous review and approval of a veterinary drug by the United States and Canada marks a successful start to a collaboration aimed at providing quicker access &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/u-s-and-canada-working-together-to-provide-access-to-needed-veterinary-drugs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/u-s-and-canada-working-together-to-provide-access-to-needed-veterinary-drugs/</link>
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		<title>China Takes Steps to Strengthen Food Safety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Camille Brewer, M.S., R.D. An important message came through loud and clear during FDA’s whirlwind visit to China this month: China is determined to strengthen its food safety system. I had not visited China in nearly 10 years and &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/china-takes-steps-to-strengthen-food-safety/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/china-takes-steps-to-strengthen-food-safety/</link>
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		<title>Patients to Benefit from Novel Medicines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. At FDA, we face a careful balancing act between the need to bring innovative new drugs to patients quickly while taking care that these medicines are safe and effective. A new FDA report shows that &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/patients-to-benefit-from-novel-medicines/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/patients-to-benefit-from-novel-medicines/</link>
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		<title>Advancing “Breakthrough” Drug Therapies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By:  Janet Woodcock, M.D. Thanks to a recent law that went into effect on July 9, 2012, FDA now has a new program to help expedite the development of new drugs that could potentially offer a substantial improvement over existing &#8230; <a href="http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2012/12/advancing-breakthrough-drug-therapies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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