United States Food and Drug Administration

**Definition:** An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE concerned with the overall planning, promoting, and administering of programs pertaining to maintaining standards of quality of foods, drugs, therapeutic devices, etc.

**Tree numbers:** - I01.409.418.750.600.650.760 - N03.540.348.500.500.600.650.760

**Synonyms:** - Food and Drug Administration - United States Food, Drug Administration - Food and Drug Administration (U.S.) - USFDA