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Food and Drug Administration

agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services

8 dated entries naming Food and Drug Administration, drawn from 7 separate years between 1901 CE and 1995 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Bureau of Chemistry, FDA, Federal Drug Administration, Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, United States Food and Drug Administration in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1901July 1 – The Bureau of Chemistry is established within the United States Department of Agriculture.source
  • 1927July 1 – The Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration (FDIA) is established as a United States federal agency.source
  • 1940June 30 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is placed under the Federal Security Agency.source
  • 1955April 12 – The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.source
  • 1983April 6 – The FDA approves sale of the first spermicidal sponge, "Today."source
  • 1983November 14 – The immunosuppressant cyclosporine is approved by the FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.source
  • 1987March 20 – AZT is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.source
  • 1995December 6 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approves Saquinavir, the first protease inhibitor to treat HIV/AIDS. Within 2 years of its approval, annual deaths from AIDS in the United States fall from over 50,000 to approximately 18,000.source

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