In the 1970s, the Food and JlDrug Administration (FDA) developed regulatory pathways for a number of active drug ingredients that were on the market but had not been approved by the FDA. Antiseptic drug products fall into one class of drugs that was included in the regulations that resulted from the expert reviews of the 1970s. At the time, it was assumed that antiseptic drug products were free of microbial contamination because of their pharmacologic activity.
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