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Milestones in FDA History
An FDA Backgrounder describing some of the milestones in the history of food
and drug regulation in the United States. Updated August 2002.
History of the FDA
Written by FDA Historian John Swann and originally published in A Historical
Guide to the U.S. Government (George Kurian, ed., New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998)
100
Years of the 1906 Food and Drugs Act: The Formation
and Early Work of the Drug Laboratory, USDA Bureau
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Written by FDA Historian John Swann and originally
published in Apothecary's Cabinet, a publication of
the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.
The Long Struggle for
the 1906 Law
Originally published in FDA
Consumer magazine in June 1981.
Story of the passage of the Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
Story of the Laws Behind
the Labels
Originally published in FDA
Consumer magazine in June 1981.
Describes the change from a food and drug law that was primarily a criminal
statute to a law that is now dominantly preventive through informative regulations
and premarket controls.
How to Become a United States Food
and Drug Inspector
Originally published in The Civil Service Magazine in 1914.
"Taste of Raspberries, Taste of Death
Originally published in the FDA
Consumer magazine
in June 1981.
An account of the 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide incident
which hastened the passage of the 1938 Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act.
Interviews with former top FDA officials.
A series of articles highlighting some of the popular perceptions of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act, whose Centennial is commemorated in 2006. The articles were written by Suzanne White Junod, Ph.D., FDA Historian,and were originally printed in Update, the bimonthly magazine of the Food and Drug Law Institute and are reproduced here courtesy of that organization.
Written by Suzanne White Junod, Ph.D., FDA Historian, these articles were originally printed in Update, the bimonthly magazine of the Food and Drug Law Institute.