SILVER SPRING - The Food and Drug Administration showed off cutting-edge laboratories on its new campus here yesterday, previewing its expanding efforts to ensure the safety of medical products.
White-coated scientists displayed the latest technologies for making sure that new drug-releasing stents work properly and that iPods don’t interfere with pacemakers - all signs, officials said, of the agency’s steps to apply its safety mission to the latest technologies and their possible complications.
“We have to keep pace with the advances being made in science and technology by having state-of-the-art facilities, state-of-the-art equipment, state-of-the-art infrastructure and the appropriate kind of people to use these resources,” said Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, the FDA commissioner.
The laboratories belong to one of the newest buildings to have opened on the FDA’s new White Oak campus. Upon completion in 2012, the $1.1 billion project will consolidate 39 facilities and 8,000 employees now scattered throughout the Washington area, FDA officials said.
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