FDA hopes to open China offices by year end

There is also an agreement in place to work together on traditional Chinese medicines. It will be interesting to see how this all comes together. Will this be staffed by actual FDA employees or be potentially outsourced to a private company to staff and run, and one other thing that comes to mind, would an outsource company be based from the US or would it be run by an offshore company in China? Many questions, but we’ll know more as time moves on. It would be nice to see actual FDA employees staffing the office. BD

ANNAPOLIS, Md (Reuters) - China has granted diplomatic approval for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to open three inspections offices in China that also will help increase China's capacity for safe foods, drugs and medical devices, a top Bush cabinet official said on Tuesday.

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