Twice a year the federal government publishes the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Unified Agenda), which provides the American public with insight into regulations under development or review throughout the federal government. For the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it gives us an opportunity to outline some of our efforts to modernize our approach to our work and improve our efficiency, while fulfilling our mandate to protect and promote the public health and uphold the FDA’s standard for regulatory decision making.

Although many of the FDA’s policies are advanced through guidance documents and other proposals, this annual list of proposed regulations provides one element of our policy agenda.

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