Medical officers at FDA perform duties that:
- ensuring all human drugs manufactured for interstate sale are safe and effective with truthful and informative product labeling
- ensuring the safety, potency, purity and effectiveness of vaccines, blood products, certain diagnostic products and other biological and biotechnology-derived human products
- ensuring the safety and effectiveness of medical devices and eliminating unnecessary human exposure to manmade radiation from medical, occupational and consumer products
- conducting inspections and investigations of food and drug manufacturing establishments, performing analytical work and recommending enforcement actions.