Which Countries have People that Eat Bugs and Insects and What is the Practice Called? July 18, 2014 by Karen Hill | Filed Under: Animals There are people all over the world who eat bugs and insects as food, and the practice is called Entomophagy, which comes from the phrase âinsect eatingâ in Greek.
No medicine can be sold unless it has first been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The manufacturers of the medication perform tests on all new medicines and send the results to the FDA. The FDA allows new medicines to be used only if they work and if they are safe enough. When a medicine's benefits outweigh its known risks, the FDA usually approves the sale of the drug. The FDA can withdraw a medication from the market at any time if it later is found to cause harmful side effects.
FDA's efforts to monitor the marketplace for potential illegal products (that is, products that may be unsafe or make false or misleading claims) include obtaining information from inspections of dietary supplement manufacturers and distributors, the Internet, consumer and trade complaints, occasional laboratory.