The Food and Drug Administration confronts homeland and national security
Subtitle: report on a workshop of the RAND Center for Domestic and International Health Security
By: Richard A. Rettig.
Contributors: Center for Domestic and International Health Security.; RAND Health.
Series: Occasional paper / RAND Health
Publisher: RAND
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Santa Monica, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: United States. -- Food and Drug Administration; Chemical warfare -- Security measures; Bioterrorism -- Prevention; Biological warfare -- Security measures; Vaccines; Drugs -- Law and legislation -- United States; United States -- Armed Forces -- Medical care
Other titles: RAND Center for Domestic and International Health Security workshop report
Description: Reviews a RAND workshop (Dec. 2002) on challenges faced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the agency's potential response to increased national and homeland security needs for drugs and vaccines.
Notes: Caption title.

"OP-102-CDIHS/KFHP."

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available via Internet. Address as of 3/23/04: http://.rand.org/publications/OP/OP102/OP102.pdf.
Table of contents: title: Proposals for change; title: Defense needs; title: The Food and Drug Administration responds; title: The morning discussion; title: The industry perspective; title: Summary views.