Browse Items (21 total)
- Collection: Science in the Public Service (C-3)
Imperial War Museum, Penicillin
Imperial War Museum, Penicillin, Imperial War Museum, Between 1939 and 1945 - first photo, July 20 2009 - second photo
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Tags: Antibiotics, Diseases, Penicillin, Science, Syphilis, World War II
Michael J. Ermarth, FDA Lab 3000
Michael J. Ermarth, FDA Lab 3000, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, February 5 2009
Feb. 5, 2009; Irvine, CA An FDA microbiologist tests seafood samples for the presence of Salmonella.
Tags: FDA, Food Safety, Salmonella, Science, Seafood, Testing
Nobel Foundation, ABO blood group system
Nobel Foundation, ABO blood group system, Nobel Foundation, 1930s - first photo, August 25 2006 - second photo
The ABO blood group system is the most important blood type system (or blood group system) in human blood transfusion. It is widely credited to have…
Tags: ABO Blood Group System, Blood, Blood Type, Karl Landsteiner, Red Blood Cells, Transfusion Medicine
Pete J. Souza, Obama signs FSMA into Law
Pete J. Souza, Obama signs FSMA into Law, Executive Office of the President of the United States, January 4 2011
Obama signs FSMA into Law. The law grants the FDA a number of new powers, including mandatory recall authority, which the agency has sought for many…
Tags: Food Safety, FSMA, Law, Obama, Science
Photographer Arthur Rothstein 1915-1985, Botanist and Inventor George Washington Carver 1864-1943
Photographer Arthur Rothstein 1915-1985, Botanist and Inventor George Washington Carver 1864-1943, Library of Congress, 1942
American Botanist and Inventor. Dr. George Washington Carver was born in Diamond Grove, Missouri, around 1864. He is one of the United States' most…
Tags: African-Americans, Agriculturel, Alabama, Botany, Farming, George Washington Carver, Peanuts, Scientists
Sam Ogden, Rudolf Jaenisch
Sam Ogden, Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute, June 2003
Rudolf Jaenisch (born 22 April 1942) is a Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is…
Tags: Biology, Cancer, Diseases, Genetic Engineering, Rudolf Jaenisch, Science, Transgenic Science
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Inspecting a Candy Factory
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Inspecting a Candy Factory, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1911
John Earnshaw, an early food and drug inspector working in and around Baltimore, inspects a clean and sanitary candy factory around 1911/12. Candy in…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Chemistry
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Chemistry, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1883
Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agricultures Division of Chemistry (third from the right) with his staff, not long after he joined…
Tags: Department of Agriculture, FDA, Food and Drugs Act, Harvey Wiley, Science
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Examining New Drug Applications
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Examining New Drug Applications, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, February 27 2012
Medical Officer Alexander Fleming, M. D., examines a portion of a 240-volume new drug application around the late 1980s. Applications grew…
Tags: Alexander Fleming, Drug Amendments, Drug Application, FDA, Safety
U.S. Government, Great Seal of the United States
U.S. Government, Great Seal of the United States, U.S. Government, Basic design - 1782
The United States Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA) amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. This act is related…
Tags: Drugs, FDA, Food, Modernization Act, Public Health