Stronger Food and Drug Regulatory Systems Abroad

by Board on Global Health, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, et al.

Ensuring the safety of food and the quality and safety of medicines in a country is an important role of government, made more complicated by global manufacturing and international trade. By recent estimates, unsafe food kills over 400,000 people a year, a third of them children under 5, mostly in low- and middle-income countries; every year poor quality medicines cause about 70,000 excess deaths from childhood pneumonia and roughly 8,500 to 20,000...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309670438
• ISBN13: 9780309670432
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 240 Pages