[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2543 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2543

   To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to amend the 
         mission statement of the Food and Drug Administration.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 11, 2016

  Mr. Manchin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to amend the 
         mission statement of the Food and Drug Administration.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Changing the Culture of the FDA 
Act''.

SEC. 2. MISSION STATEMENT OF THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the 
Commissioner of Food and Drugs, is directed to amend the mission 
statement of the Food and Drug Administration to include the following 
statement: ``The FDA is also responsible for protecting the public 
health by strongly considering the danger of addiction and overdose 
death associated with prescription opioid medications when approving 
these medications and when regulating the manufacturing, marketing, and 
distribution of opioid medications.''
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