Overview and History of FDA and the
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

1956 Commemorative stamp honoring Dr. Harvey W. Wiley	Stamp Commemorates Food & Drugs Act

Overview

• Overview of FDA
  • FDA's Growing Responsibilities for the Year 2001 and Beyond June 2001
  • The Food and Drug Administration: An Overview January 1999
  • FDA Organization Charts
  • Food and Drug Fact Sheets
  • Science at FDA: The Key to Making the Right Decision March-April 2000
  • FDA Science: Protecting America's Health March-April 2003
• Overview of Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
  • Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition - Overview February 2001
  • CFSAN Organizational Chart (also available in PDF)
  • CFSAN Activities
• U.S. Food Safety System Country Report, March, 2000
  • US Food Safety System
  • Precaution in US Food Safety Decisionmaking

History of FDA and CFSAN

• FDA History
• Milestones in U. S. Food and Drug Law History
• The Long Struggle for the 1906 Law
• Story of the Laws Behind the Labels
  • Part I: 1906 Food and Drugs Act
  • Part II: 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
  • Part III: 1962 Drug Amendments
• FDA Commissioners and Their Predecessors
• A Guide to Resources on the History of the Food and Drug Administration
• Selected Sources on the History of FDA

New Stamp Honors the First Comprehensive National Food and Drug Law: January 13, 1998 Release