The individual state governments can then assess the impact of release on markets and trade and apply further legislation to control approved genetically modified products.
The F.D.A., long criticized as moving too slowly on drug applications, is now approving products at a record-setting pace.
In almost every other industrialized country, the government approves products for domestic retail sale by brand name.
A) CDRH does not approve electronic products that emit radiation.
In theory, all countries apply the same rules and guidelines for approving products.
CSA International tests and certifies products to an applicable standard or standards but it does not approve products for sale.
And the Food and Drug Administration routinely takes years to approve such products.
These existing approval frameworks almost universally use the best available science to assess safety and do not approve substances or products with an unacceptable risk benefit profile.
She supported the creation of a new arms-length agency to approve drugs and other biomedical products.
Design for the Environment has approved more than 2,000 industrial and institutional products.