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Dr Ahmad Risk 

HIE Library Archive 1998/9  

American FDA tests acceptability of digital signatures

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing regulations that provide criteria for acceptance by FDA, under certain circumstances, of electronic records, electronic signatures, and hand-written signatures executed to electronic records as equivalent to paper records and hand-written signatures executed on paper.

These regulations, which apply to all FDA program areas, are intended to permit the widest possible use of electronic technology, compatible with FDA's responsibility to promote and protect public health.