section_subject: "General factors relevant to safety and effectiveness."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 601.32"
title_name: "Title 21"
title_subject: "Food and Drugs"
parts_covered: "Parts 600 to 799"
revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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FDA's determination of the safety and effectiveness of a diagnostic radiopharmaceutical includes consideration of the following:
(a)The proposed use of the diagnostic radiopharmaceutical in the practice of medicine;
(b)The pharmacological and toxicological activity of the diagnostic radiopharmaceutical (including any carrier or ligand component of the diagnostic radiopharmaceutical); and
(c)The estimated absorbed radiation dose of the diagnostic radiopharmaceutical.