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FDA 101: Medication Errors.
FDA Consumer Health Information. Rockville, MD: US Food and Drug Administration; February 20, 2009.

This fact sheet discusses the role of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in reducing medication errors and describes examples of such errors for consumers.
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