Title: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Papers

Date/Date Range :   1830-1918

Extent: 5.0 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection houses directories, correspondence, notices, regulations, certificates, reports, newspaper clippings, press releases, bulletins, and data books documenting the workings of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Call number: MS-0640

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Harcourt Morgan and Frank Vandeventer donated these papers to the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library in 1931.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], U.S. Food and Drug Administration Papers, MS-0640. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of five boxes.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an agency of Department of Health and Human Services, began as a single chemist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1862. Originally called the Division of Chemistry, the agency became the Bureau of Chemistry in 1901. The modern FDA was formed in 1906 with the passage of the Federal Food and Drugs Act, which added regulatory responsibilities to the agency's existing scientific mission. The Bureau of Chemistry became the Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration in July of 1927 and then the Food and Drug Administration in 1930. The FDA remained a part of the Department of Agriculture until 1940, when it was moved to the Federal Security Agency. In 1953, the agency moved to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, where it remained through the reorganizations that created the Department of Health and Human Services in 1980. Today, the FDA has a budget of $1.3 million and exercises wide-ranging inspection and regulatory powers.

This collection houses directories, correspondence, notices, regulations, certificates, reports, newspaper clippings, press releases, bulletins, and data books documenting the workings of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

• United States. Food and Drug Administration.
• United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953.