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Food and Drug Administration

agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services

7 dated entries naming Food and Drug Administration, drawn from 6 separate years between 1927 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 Food, Drug, and Insecticide 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

  • 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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