Question

What is meant by Fast Track provision?

(a) Send medicines fast

(b) Common medicines should reach poor people

(c) Rapid approval of priority medications

(d) Rapid selling of priority medications

The question was posed to me in an interview for internship.

This is a very interesting question from Controlled Release Medication topic in section Controlled Release Medication of Drug Biotechnology

Answer 1

Right answer is (c) Rapid approval of priority medications

The best I can explain: Under the Food and Drug Modernization Act of 1997 which is also known as the Fast track provisions, the FDA tries to rapidly approve “priority” medications intended for serious illnesses and for which no alternative currently is available. Such as medicines for Alzheimer, cancers, AIDS, Viral infection may get a speedy approval from the FDA and thus can be available in the market as soon as they are approved.