US FDA debuts new system to monitor accountability, transparency

The US Food and Drug Administration this week launched an innovative performance management system designed to advance the President's commitment to transparency, public participation and collaboration in the work of government.

The system, called FDA-TRACK, will monitor more than 100 FDA program offices through data from key performance measures established each year. That data will be gathered monthly, analyzed and presented each quarter to FDA senior leadership. Importantly, the public will be able to track this data and the agency's progress through the FDA-TRACK website.

"FDA-TRACK will bring the operations of this historically opaque Agency into the daylight and help us be even more responsive as we work to protect the public health," said FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.