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The main duty of the FDA is to protect the health of the public by ensuring the effectiveness, safety, and security of human and veterinary medicines, medical gadgets, biological goods as well as guarantee the safety of the country’s food supply, products that emit radiation and cosmetics. Therefore, the FDA plays an active role in developing policies that seek to promote its mandate as described above. As such, the FDA establishes processes for agency policy development and monitors policy development activities all through the agency (Pena-Rodriguez, 2013). Importantly, FDA advises key agency officials on the development of extensive agency regulatory policy.
The FDA is important in the policy development process for various reasons. For instance, the agency negotiates the resolution of policy matters that involve more than one element of the agency. The FDA is also important in that it instigates and takes part in interagency discussions on agency regulations, plans and policies to enhance the synchronization of local, state, or federal agencies on a certain regulation or in formulating an alternative approach that is effective (Pena-Rodriguez, 2013). More so, the FDA acts to lead and serve on task forces on the agency that are vital components in the instigation, study, and resolution of priority policy matters.
The FDA has had a positive impact the policy development process. For instance, by advancing the development of public health policies, the agency has assisted in accelerating innovations that make medical goods more efficient, safer, and cheaper; in the process, the FDA has assisted the public to get correct, science-based information they require to utilize foods and medical products to maintain and enhance their health (Hunting & Gleason, 2017).
References
Hunting, K., & Gleason, B. L. (2017). Essential case studies in public health. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Pena-Rodriguez, M. E. (2013). Statistical process control for the FDA-regulated industry. Quality Press.
