Editing Food and Drug Administration (section)

==== Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing ====
{{Main|COVID-19 testing}}
During the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|coronavirus pandemic]], FDA granted [[emergency use authorization]] for [[personal protective equipment]] (PPE), in vitro diagnostic equipment, [[ventilator]]s and other medical devices.<ref name="FDA-EUA">{{cite web |url=https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-medical-devices/emergency-use-authorizations#coronavirus2019 |title=Emergency Use Authorizations - FDA |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=May 21, 2020 | publisher = U.S. Food and Drug Administration |access-date=May 21, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517205323/https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-medical-devices/emergency-use-authorizations |archive-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rizk JG, Forthal DN, Kalantar-Zadeh K, Mehra MR, Lavie CJ, Rizk Y, Pfeiffer JP, Lewin JC | title = Expanded Access Programs, compassionate drug use, and Emergency Use Authorizations during the COVID-19 pandemic | journal = Drug Discovery Today | volume = 26 | issue = 2 | pages = 593–603 | date = February 2021 | pmid = 33253920 | pmc = 7694556 | doi = 10.1016/j.drudis.2020.11.025 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.fda.gov/media/144413/download |title=Comirnaty and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine |journal=FDA |date=January 3, 2022 |access-date=October 27, 2021 |archive-date=August 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814042307/https://www.fda.gov/media/144413/download |url-status=live }}</ref>

On March 18, 2020, FDA inspectors postponed most foreign facility inspections and all domestic routine surveillance facility inspections.<ref name="FDA-COVID-19-inspections">{{cite web |url=https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-focuses-safety-regulated-products-while-scaling-back-domestic |title=Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Focuses on Safety of Regulated Products While Scaling Back Domestic Inspections |author=Stephen M. Hahn M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs - Food and Drug Administration |date=March 18, 2020 |publisher=U.S. Food and Drug Administration |access-date=May 21, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512170315/https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-focuses-safety-regulated-products-while-scaling-back-domestic |archive-date=May 12, 2020 |quote=Earlier this month, we announced that we are postponing most foreign facility inspections through April and that inspections outside the U.S. deemed mission-critical will be considered on a case-by-case basis as this outbreak continues to unfold. Today, we're announcing that for the health and well-being of our staff and those who conduct inspections for the agency under contract at the state level, and because of industry concerns about visitors, we have temporarily postponed all domestic routine surveillance facility inspections. These are facility inspections the FDA traditionally conducts every few years based on a risk analysis. Importantly, all domestic for-cause inspection assignments will be evaluated and will proceed if mission-critical. We will continue to respond to natural disasters, outbreaks and other public health emergencies involving FDA-regulated products.}}</ref> In contrast, the [[United States Department of Agriculture|USDA's]] [[Food Safety and Inspection Service]] (FSIS) continued inspections of meatpacking plants, which resulted in 145 FSIS field employees who tested positive for COVID-19, and three who died.<ref name="CBS-COVID">{{cite news | vauthors = Carney J |date=May 5, 2020 |title=3 USDA meat inspectors dead, about 145 diagnosed with COVID-19 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-usda-meat-inspectors-3-dead-covid-19/ |url-status=live |work=CBS News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519054805/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-usda-meat-inspectors-3-dead-covid-19/ |archive-date=May 19, 2020 |access-date=May 22, 2020}}</ref>