History of the Food and Drug Administration
In June 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law the Food and Drug Act, also known as the "Wiley Act" after its chief advocate. The Act prohibited, under penalty of seizure of goods, the interstate transport of food which had been "adulterated," with that term referring to the addition of fillers of reduced "quality or strength," coloring to conceal "damage or inferiority," formulation with additives "injurious to health," or the use of "filthy, decomposed, or putrid" substances. The act applied similar penalties to the interstate marketing of "adulterated" drugs, in which the "standard of strength, quality, or purity" of the active ingredient was not either stated clearly on the label or listed in the "United States Pharmacopoeia" or the "National Formulary". The act also banned "misbranding" of food and drugs. The responsibility for examining food and drugs for such "adulteration" or "misbranding" was given to Wiley's USDA Bureau of Chemistry.
PrecisionFDA
PrecisionFDA (stylized precisionFDA) is a cloud-based next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) data platform developed by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It was designed as part of President Barack Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative in 2015. The platform allows researchers to upload and compare data against reference genomes, bioinformatics pipelines, and genomic data. Users may also use the service to verify their genetic tests against reference genomes. The platform's code is open source and available on GitHub.