What Is the Food and Drug Administration?
As with other government agencies, there exists speculation of the involvement of politics when it comes to food and drug regulation practices. Many factors can affect the FDA approval process, and there is no proof either way to indicate that the FDA calls upon non-scientific data in its decision making. That said, being a federal entity, it makes sense to consider the fact that the administration will be affected by the country’s political climate at any given time. Large pharmaceutical businesses do indeed fund large-scale health research, the implications of which are unclear at this point.
