O FDA hospeda o Summit internacional Inaugural
por
Barbara Kram, Editor | December 05, 2006
An international contingent
of regulators met recently
in Washington
On the occasion of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Centennial year, the FDA hosted an inaugural international summit of heads of medical products regulatory agencies in Washington, D.C., November 16-17, 2006.
Foreign principals attending the summit were the senior executive officers (counterpart to the FDA Commissioner) from the medical products regulatory agencies of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, in addition to the Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization responsible for medical products. (Acting Commissioner of FDA, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, is on the far right.)
Read welcome remarks by the acting FDA commissioner at
http://www.fda.gov/oc/speeches/2006/summit111606.html
