Say No To Drugs PSAs - Public Svc Announcements over the yrs

Updated April 21, 2017
This post didn't age well. The video links have broken, so I've removed them from the original post. You can get a sense of the video with this collection of photos:
PSAs Say No to Drugs

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I was catching up with news this wet Saturday morning and ran across this CBS News mini-history of anti-drug messaging over the years. Enjoy!

For related photos and links specific to this video clip go to CBS News PSAs Say No to Drugs Photos.

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FDA Publishes Rulemaking Histories For OTC Drugs

If you're in the Over-The-Counter (OTC), non-prescription drug business, then this FDA collection might be of some interest to you: Rulemaking History for Nonprescription Products: Drug Category List. The Over-the-Counter (OTC) drug category collection contains Federal Register notices organized by therapeutic category subtopics. Each child collection links to therapeutic category pages organized chronologically. Pretty nice. For example, you can scan the Federal Register history for something like, Hair Growth and Loss, Male Genital Desensitizers, or Weight Control. 

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Interesting FDA History - CFR for white chocolate

Updated October 3, 2016

Some of the links in the original post below have broken.

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Guidance for Industry: Standard of Identity for White Chocolate - FDA

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This is something fun to read on Christmas day. Many years ago, chocolate manufacturers had to fight for the ability to use the term "white chocolate," as this Chocolate.com article recounts, "White Chocolate FDA Standard." If you didn't already know, the FDA has very specific specifications for what qualifies as white chocolate, "PART 163 -- CACAO PRODUCTS -
Subpart B--Requirements for Specific Standardized Cacao Products - Sec. 163.124 White chocolate.

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The FDA History - Teaching Resources (free)

Updated June 28, 2025

Many of the links below have broken over time.  However . . .

The FDA still maintains many of these related areas of interest.

Just start here:  FDA History - Main Webpage

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If you're responsible for teaching or delivering training on the FDA's history, then run, don't walk to this terrific site of FDA history resources, "FDA History." At this site, you get the chronological account of events leading up to the current state of affairs. Here's what you'll be able to reference . . .

History of the FDA
A brief history of FDA from its origins to the present.
Milestones in FDA History
Food and drug law milestones from 1820 to the present.
The Long Struggle for the 1906 Law
Story of the passage of the Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
Activists in the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act Legislative Campaign
An evolving document listing 1906 activists and their successor organizations
A Brief History of Drug Regulation
Description of the evolution of the drug regulatory function at FDA from 1902 to the present, including an Index and a Timeline.
Annual NDA Data, 1938 to the Present
A year-by-year tabulation of the total number of New Drug Applications received and approved, including all New Molecular Entities.
Regulating Biological Medicines
A commemoration of the Biologics Control Act and the history of how vaccines, blood, and other biological products were regulated.
Regulating Veterinary Medicine
A historical look at the regulation of products for animals.
The Laws Behind the Labels
Describes the change from a food and drug law that was primarily a criminal statute to a law that is now dominantly preventive through informative regulations and premarket controls.
Slideshow: The Rise and Fall of Federal Food Standards in the United States: The Case of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
Scrutiny of the ingredients in the peanut butter and jelly sandwich illustrates the importance of food standards to insure value to consumers.
FDA's 2006 Centennial Celebration

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