Thursday, June 11, 2009

FDA's RSS Feeds -- they're batting .555

The FDA provides a collection of 9 RSS Feeds for its various sub-domains.

5 of the 9 feeds are actually useful (Consumer Health Info, MedWatch Safety Alerts, News Releases, Recalls, What's New @ CDRH).

The other 4 are borderline pointless. It's not that the topics are pointless. Hell, I'd be interested in actually getting a glimpse as to what's new @ CDER & CBER. But take a look at the Feeds.

Enforcement Reports
is simply a running list of when the FDA releases its weekly enforcement report, but there's no summary information provided in the feed itself. The content of each weekly report should be a feed itself.

What's New @ CDER & CBER aren't much better.

What's New @ the Center for Food Safety has a whopping single entry over 1 month old.

Why don't we just get rid of the food feed and put a little more meat into the others?

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