Hazardous to Our Health?: FDA Regulation of Health Care Products

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one of the most powerful of federal regulatory agencies, if not the most powerful. It regulates over 25% of all consumer goods sold in the United States. It makes decisions on a daily basis that affect the lives of millions of people.

While the FDA was created to protect the public, how well is it fulfilling this mission and whose interests is it actually protecting?

In this book, four outstanding scholars examine how the FDA accumulated its enormous...