NLM is pleased to announce the completion of the first phase of an online finding aid/scanning project to provide information about and access to NLM’s 2,000+ linear foot archival collection of the FDA Notice of Judgment files. This project provides for managing scans of and extracting metadata from some 70,000 Notices of Judgments in court cases about violations of the Pure Food and Drug acts; this release provides access to some 6,800 scanned notices related to drugs and devices, with the balance to follow. In addition to providing information about the cases, the database serves as a locator for the archival materials upon which the cases were made, which provide extensive information about the commerce of health care in the first half of the twentieth century. These original materials were transferred to NLM from the FDA with the assistance of Dr. John Swann, FDA Historian.

The project may be found at http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/fdanj. A press announcement will be forthcoming.

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