FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and her deputy Joshua Sharfstein pledge to restore the FDA’s credibility.  Read how these two physicians plan to undertake the work ahead in an article by the Associated Press.

The FDA’s success shouldn’t be judged by how many factories it inspects or drugs it approves, but in its overall work to improve public health, the pair wrote. For example, FDA scientists are working behind the scenes to grow the new swine-flu virus and make the ingredients necessary to test if vaccines against it are potent enough, and eventually will oversee vaccine production quality.

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