The Food and Drug Administration's Investigational New Drug (IND) program is the means by which a pharmaceutical company obtains permission to ship an experimental drug across state lines (usually to clinical investigators) before a marketing application for the drug has been approved. The FDA reviews the IND application for safety to assure that research subjects will not be subjected to unreasonable risk.
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a form submitted by a company as a request for FDAis permission to expose healthy human volunteers to an experimental drug; must be filed for each clinical trial performed, phases 1-3.