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NEW FDA WEBSITE DEBUTS

FDA has launched an improved Website (www.fda.gov) to give users quicker, easier access to the information they need. Based on feedback from consumers, health professionals, and industry representatives--FDA's primary audiences--the agency designed the new site to place more of the most important and popular information front and center on the home page.

One of the biggest changes is the display on the home page of current FDA news items. Reports of safety alerts and product approvals are included and updated regularly. (The site also has an archive of FDA press releases and other news items dating back to 1992.)

Also featured on the new Website:

• Information on "hot topics" such as cell phones and breast implants that will be updated regularly.
• Automated e-mail lists to which the public can subscribe. One list provides a weekly digest of FDA news (summaries of press releases, talk papers, speeches, testimony, and other new postings on the FDA Website). Other, more specialized e-mail lists are also available. A page listing all of them can be reached directly from the FDA home page.
• A "reference room" with links to Federal Register notices and background on laws and regulations enforced by FDA.
• Links to pages maintained by the various FDA centers responsible for regulating food, drugs, biologics, medical devices and other products.
• Special information for consumers, patients, women, and other audiences.
• Information about FDA activities such as Freedom of Information, science at FDA and clinical trials.
• An improved search engine to provide more meaningful and useful results. The alphabetic index also has been thoroughly updated, and there is now a site map for those who find that feature a useful way to locate information.

The site also enables users to report problems with products regulated by FDA and to comment on proposed regulations. For more information about the new FDA Website, contact John Henkel of the agency's Website Management Staff at 301-827-5278 or jhenkel@oc.fda.gov.

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