| January 15, 2008 | - The FDA determined that cloned animals are acceptable food.
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BBC News
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| April 4, 2007 | - The Food and Drug Administration proposed new labeling rules that would allow irradiated foods to be categorized merely as “pasteurized.”
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Washington Post
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| January 5, 2007 | - The FDA approved Slentrol, a weight loss drug for dogs.
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USA Today
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| September 20, 2006 | - The Food and Drug Administration announced that it had found the “smoking gun” of bacteria-infested spinach in a refrigerator in New Mexico.
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CNN
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| August 24, 2006 | -
F.D.A. representative Dr. Janet Woodcock said that selling the Plan B contraceptive over the counter would transform it into an “urban legend” that would tempt adolescents to create “sex-based cults.”
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New York Times
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| August 1, 2006 | - The Food and Drug Administration almost approved over-the-counter sales of the oral contraceptive Plan B.
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NY Times
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| March 8, 2006 | - The House passed legislation that, if approved in the Senate, will make it far more difficult for states to put warning labels on food; under the new rules all warnings will be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. "What's wrong," asked Representative Henry Waxman (D., Calif.), "with our system of federalism?"
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Canada.com
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| November 15, 2005 | - A Congressional investigation determined that the FDA decided to bar over-the-counter sales of the “morning after” pill before a scientific review of the pill was completed.
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Democracy Now!
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| September 20, 2005 | - The FDA was criticized for naming a veterinarian trained in animal husbandry as acting director for the Office of Women’s Health.
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The Washington Post
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| September 12, 2005 | - It was revealed that, several months before it issued a warning, the FDA had been aware that the Guidant Ventak Prizm 2 DR heart defibrillator had a tendency to short-circuit.
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The New York Times
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| August 31, 2005 | - Susan Wood, chief of women’s health at the FDA, resigned over the FDA’s refusal to allow emergency contraception to be sold over the counter in spite of “scientific and clinical evidence, fully evaluated and recommended by the professional staff here.”
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AP
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| August 25, 2005 | - The FDA was working out a plan to regulate medicinal maggots and leeches, both of which it has classified as "devices." "The primary mode of action for maggots," said a representative from a medicinal maggot firm, "is chewing."
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The New York Times
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| May 13, 2005 | - Dr. W. David Hager, the George W. Bush-appointed adviser to the FDA and a vocal opponent of emergency contraception, abortion, and pre-marital sex, was accused by his ex-wife of anally raping her on a regular basis over many years. Hager is the author of the books As Jesus Cared for Women and, with his wife, Stress and the Woman's Body.
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The Nation
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| May 5, 2005 | - The FDA announced that men who have had gay sex in the last five years will not be eligible to donate sperm anonymously.
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CNN
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| December 19, 2004 | - and a survey found that one fifth of all FDA scientists had been pressured to recommend approval of a new drug.
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New York Times
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| December 4, 2004 | - Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson became the eighth member of Bush's fifteen-member cabinet to resign since Election Day. At a press conference, Thompson expressed concern about the FDA's flawed drug approval process, a possible global flu pandemic, and the vulnerability of the nation's food supply. "For the life of me," Thompson said, "I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply, because it's so easy to do."
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New York Times
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| October 28, 2004 | - A federal judge ordered the Defense Department to stop giving troops the anthrax vaccine and said that the Food and Drug Administration broke its own rules by approving it.
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Washington Post
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| October 16, 2004 | - The FDA ordered all antidepressants to carry a "black box" warning that the drugs might cause children and adolescents to have suicidal thoughts.
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Associated Press
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| September 3, 2004 | - The Food and Drug Administration was trying to decide whether it's ethical to give children
amphetamines as part of a study.
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Associated Press
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| July 25, 2004 | - The Bush Administration has decided that consumers should not be able to sue manufacturers of drugs that have been approved by the FDA.
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New York Times
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| June 29, 2004 | - The FDA approved the use of blood-sucking leeches for medicinal purposes.
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Reuters
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| April 16, 2004 | - The FDA admitted that it refused to permit its lead expert on the subject to testify publicly that antidepressant drugs cause children to become suicidal.
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New York Times
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| March 27, 2004 | - The FDA approved a quick saliva test for HIV.
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New York Times
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| February 27, 2004 | - The Food and Drug Administration banned the feeding of cattle blood to calves. Dinner scraps from restaurants, known as "plate waste," will no longer be fed to cattle either, though rendered cows will still be fed to pigs and chickens, and vice versa.
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New York Times
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| July 11, 2003 | - The Food and Drug Administration was planning to make it easier for companies to make misleading health claims about their food products. "Many Americans are not getting clear information on how the foods they choose affect their health," said the FDA's commissioner about the initiative. "We need to do a better job on this urgent public-health problem."
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New York Times
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| July 11, 2003 | - The Food and Drug Administration reported that a feed company in Washington State had admitted to violating rules designed to prevent the spread of mad cow disease.
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Reuters
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| September 25, 2001 | - Hundreds of artificial hips were recalled by the Food and Drug Administration.
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| June 12, 2001 | - The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the Lap-Band Adjustable Gastric Banding System to help fat people lose weight.
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| May 15, 2001 | - Environmentalists and fishermen asked the Food and Drug Administration to impose a moratorium on genetically modified fish.
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| May 1, 2001 | - The Food and Drug Administration warned people not to eat Autumn Monkshood, a poisonous plant that nurseries in Washington, Idaho, and British Columbia had been selling with a label reading “tasty in soup.” Three Britons were thought to be infected with foot-and-mouth disease, including a “slaughterman” who, according to a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair, caught the disease while he “was moving a decomposing carcass of a cow, when that carcass exploded, and the fluid went into his mouth”; the slaughterman was later found to have a different virus.
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| October 31, 2000 | - The Food and Drug Administration proposed banning two antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, which are given to whole flocks of chickens in their water, because they cause camplyobacter bacteria to develop a resistance to antibiotics.
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| October 17, 2000 | - The United States
Food and Drug Administration imposed a mandatory salmonella testing program on egg farms.
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| October 3, 2000 | - RU-486, the abortion pill, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Governor George W. Bush said it was the wrong decision.
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| August 22, 2000 | - The United States
Food and Drug Administration issued a “draft guidance” concerning a proposal to blacklist foreign companies that import defective condoms; the report said that “continuous monitoring of these devices is needed.” Democratic Representative Loretta Sanchez cancelled a Playboy Mansion fundraiser after Al Gore objected to it.
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