[VIDEO] The emergency authorization for those three coronavirus vaccines we've been hearing about -or at least seen our fb friends showing off their cards for receiving their shots - is courtesy of the agency we commonly know as the FDA. So Mr. Beat explains the history of this agency and how it came into being.
When we go to our local pharmacist or drug store we generally have an idea of what we're ingesting especially as far as over the counter meds that we might take for say the common cold or flu. In our history that wasn't always true, perhaps our pharmacists were actually running apothecaries - and I'm guessing that's a new term for you and you didn't hear that from Mr. Beat. The apothecary basically created the medications that you might use.
Of course the 19th century had so many concoctions dedicated to your well-being that since there were no serious regulation of such products there was a possibility that they might actually be harmful. And that's what the organization that evolved to become the FDA was designed to do. It was a bit of a long drawn out process to ensure that what the public consumes especially medication is considered safe for us to use.
And just think the organization we now know as the FDA was actually created in the 1920s. Before that it was the federal Dept. of Agriculture that tried to regulate primarily food grown and raised in America.
Are you glad there is better regulation of food and drugs? Certainly are you glad there are regulations on what a doctor can prescribe to their patients?
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