Administration considers establishing FDA office in India

Administration considers establishing FDA office in India
By Anna Edney CongressDaily January 23, 2008

FDA's fight to become a better watchdog over drugs and pharmaceutical ingredients flowing into the United States might land the agency an office in India.

While the talks are preliminary, HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt said last week during a briefing that his visit to India this month set in motion an ongoing consideration of an FDA presence in that nation.

"We clearly have the strategy of putting more U.S. government personnel in other countries where we can build capacity and begin to work more closely with them," Leavitt said, although he added, "No decisions have been made."

Leavitt was careful to point out that a timeline was impossible to give because of India's complicated bureaucracy and the nascence of the talks.

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Why can't we drive over the border to Canada to get our medications?

most pesticides, which up until two years ago were manufactured in Georgia, now come from India. How sure are we that these chemicals are manufactured according to specs?

since indian bureaucrats are so very corrupt.