True or False: In addition to drugs, the FDA regulates food, cosmetics, and anything that generates harmful radiation.

Dietitian: Food producers irradiate food in order to prolong its shelf life. Five animal studies were recently conducted to investigate whether this process alters food in a way that could be dangerous to people who eat it. The studies concluded that irradiated food is safe for humans to eat. However, because these studies were subsequently found by a panel of independent scientists to be seriously flawed in their methodology, it follows that irradiated food is not safe for human consumption. The reasoning in the dietitian’s argument is flawed because that argument ______.Choices:- treats a failure to prove a claim as constituting proof of the denial of that claim treats methodological flaws in past studies as proof that it is currently not possible to devise methodologically adequate alternatives fails to consider the possibility that even a study whose methodology has no serious flaws nonetheless might provide only weak support for its conclusion fails to consider the possibility that what is safe for animals might not always be safe for human beings.

The FDA does allows bugs, hair, or foreign substances (plastic, glass, etc...) to be in foods as these are examples of incidental food additives.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

The purpose of the FDA Office of Biotechnology is to evaluate and approve products for clinical trials and marketing approval. True False

Which of the following statements about the US FDA are true? Select ALL that apply.Group of answer choicesThe FDA is responsible for ensuring that medications are both safe and effective before approvedThe FDA has legal authority to issue an Emergency Use Authorization for unapproved products to be used in an emergency situation when certain criteria are met and there are no adequate, approved and available alternativesThe only source of funding to the FDA is from the federal budgetOn average, fewer than 10% of investigational drugs ever make it past the valley of death during the drug development pipeline.

Dose limits are established, above which there is an unacceptably high risk biological damage from exposure. Below the dose limit there is no danger of an exposure causing cancer. True or false?Group of answer choicesTrueFalse