This is "Regulatory Man," who recently switched from working in a Title 21 to a Title 14 environment. If you remember - and I'm sure you do - I stated that I'd switched from a FDA-influenced to a FAA-influenced environment. Do the statements in the first and second sentences match? Yes! How?
Both titles are two of 50. Both are printed in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). I'll be lazy and quote the introductory statement:
"The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It [the Federal Register] is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Each volume of the CFR is updated once each calendar year and is issued on a quarterly basis."
Title 21 is Food and Drugs.
Title 14 is Aeronautics and Space.
The Code is thousands of pages long. All aspects of how food and drugs, aeronautics and space, plus 48 other topics are outlined in chapters, parts, and subparts providing detail from how manufacturing-floor personnel must dress (no open shoes) to how pilot training schools must maintain their facilities (destroy all outdated maps).
By now you are bored. If you are plagued with insomnia, read the Code. You will soon be asleep. But in truth you should care about CFR as it applies to your business or your professional activities, so that you will not be unpleasantly surprised by their enforcement. You can browse a list of the 50 titles of the CFR here.
Bill
Bill Gruener has been a college textbook editor and an executive placement director. He earned a Master's degree in professional and technical writing from Northeastern University in 2002 and is now a technical writer working for CSC supporting RITA, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT).
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