Government.Government: Witnesses at last month's hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee sub·com·mit·teen. A subordinate committee composed of members appointed from a main committee. subcommittee Noun on Oversight
Oversight may refer to:
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the GAO, 80% of APIs and 40% of all finished drugs sold in the US are imported. The GAO said that the FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. only inspected 295 of the more than 6,000 foreign manufacturers that export to the US, including only 13 of the 714 Chinese firms. A former FDA official explained that the FDA's current border inspection policies for drugs are based on the organization's food inspection policies, which do not cover drugs adequately; furthermore, only 1% of imported drugs are inspected at the border. According to a member of the European API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. industry, the European drug industry also imports about 80% of its APIs and its regulatory policies regarding imported drugs are as weak as those of the US. Source: C&EN |
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