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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves Upside Foods and Good Meat's applications to commercially sell lab-grown meat, making the United States the second country in the world to allow its sale after Singapore.
2023-06-21

The FDA announces that it has approved the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for youths between the ages of 12 and 17.
2022-08-19

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces that it will ban flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes within a year, claiming they disproportionately impact low-income and minority households.
2021-04-29

The Centers for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends Johnson & Johnson's single-shot vaccine for people over the age of 18, a day after the Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use of the vaccine.
2021-02-28

The Food and Drug Administration grants emergency use authorization for Eli Lilly and Company's combination antibody therapy bamlanivimab-etesevimab for use in COVID-19 positive adults and children aged 12 and older who are at high risk of severe disease.
2021-02-9

Moderna announces that they will seek approval from the Food and Drug Administration and European regulators such as the European Medicines Agency for their potential vaccine after it showed a 94% effectiveness.
2020-11-30

Nine vaccine companies sign a pledge that they won't submit vaccine candidates for review by the Food and Drug Administration until their safety and efficacy is shown in large clinical trials.
2020-09-8

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the country's first biosimilar drug, Zarxio (Europe: 2009, as Zarzio), made by Novartis. Biosimilars are a relatively new class of drugs designed to pave the way for less expensive versions of the complex biologics drug class, and they are not synthesized from chemicals like other drugs, but are made from living cells. Some well known biologics include Remicade and Enbrel for autoimmune diseases, and Herceptin and Avastin for cancer. Zarxio, used to prevent infection in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, is a close copy of Neupogen, made by Amgen.
2015-03-6

The US Food and Drug Administration bans all milk, fruit and vegetables imports from areas of Japan near the Fukushima plant.
2011-03-22

Surgeons at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia inject a spinal cord injury patient with embryonic stem cells in an experiment approved by United States Food and Drug Administration.
2010-10-11