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How’s your knowledge of health topics such as cloned animals, clinical trials, and foodborne illness? Find out by taking our quiz.

Hint: The answers to all of these questions can be found in the
March-April 2007 issue of FDA Consumer (and clicking on the link at the bottom of this page).

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1. When did researchers begin cloning livestock?

a. 1986

b. 1990

c. 1996

d. 2000

e. 2004

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2. Most livestock cloning uses a process called:

a. artificial insemination

b. test tube mutagenics

c. embryo transfer

d. embryo splitting

e. somatic cell nuclear transfer

f. in vitro fertilization

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3. The FDA’s draft risk assessment on animal cloning has concluded that:

a. meat and milk from clones are as safe as the food from uncloned animals

b. meat and milk from clones are safe for use in pet food, but not in human food

c. meat and milk from clones are unsafe for both people and pets

d. cloning poses no unique risks to animal health compared with risks found in other assisted reproductive technologies

e. a and d

4. What does double-blinding in a controlled clinical trial mean?

a. There are two sets of window shades in the research area to give the study participants privacy while they are given the experimental product.

b. The research team and study sponsor know who is receiving the experimental product and who is being given an inactive substance (placebo), but the participants don’t know.

c. Neither the participant nor the research team knows whether participants are receiving the experimental product or a placebo.

d. Only participants being given the experimental product know what they’re getting—those getting the placebo don’t know it.

5. Federal law requires “substantial evidence” that a drug will have the effect it is claimed to have before it may be marketed in the United States, and the only source of substantial evidence is:

a. testimonies from numerous physicians and patients

b. evidence from government-funded studies

c. evidence from a mix of government and privately funded studies

d. articles from U.S. and European medical journals

e. evidence from adequate and well-controlled studies

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6. A plan for a controlled clinical trial that describes what study procedures will be done, when, and by whom is called:

a. an implementation plan

b. a clinical road map

c. a study schematic

d. the protocol

e. an execution diagram

7. A laboratory measurement or physical sign used as a substitute for a measurement of how a person feels physically, functions, or survives is called:

a. substitution marker

b. surrogate endpoint

c. imitation endpoint

d. proxy endpoint

e. replacement marker

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8. The fall 2006 contamination of fresh spinach with the bacteria E. coli O157:H7 caused illnesses in how many states?

a. 5

b. 11

c. 26

d. 41

9. Which of the following was implicated in the spinach outbreak?

a. bagged spinach

b. canned spinach

c. frozen spinach

d. all of the above

10. The FDA is concerned when:

a. consumers receive prescription products without appropriate instructions

b. pharmacies compound drugs to meet the specialized needs of individual patients

c. pharmacies compound standardized versions of products that could be dangerous to health

d. a and c

Your Score is:

Scoring

7 to 9 points: Excellent! Go to the head of the class.
4 to 6 points: Not too bad. You can skip cleaning the chalkboard erasers today.
3 points and below: Oops! Stay after school and reread the appropriate chapters.

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