FDA provides an archive of pages and downloadable files in the www.fda.gov site.


Search the FDA.gov Web Archive

Use this search function to search for text in pages and files in the FDA.gov Web Archive. After you click Search the Archive, the results appear on the FDA.gov Archive-It site.


Browse the FDA.gov Web Archive

  1. Go to the FDA.gov Web Archive page in Archive-It.

  2. Click the date for the snapshot you want to view.

  3. The FDA.gov home page appears. Browse through the site.

Note that the search function on each page in the FDA.gov Web Archive is disabled. Use the search function above instead.


Find a Page or File by URL in the FDA.gov Web Archive

  1. Go to the FDA.gov Web Archive page in Archive-It.
  2. In the Enter Web Address field at the top of the page, type or paste the full URL for the page or file. Then, click Take Me Back.
  3. Click the date for the snapshot you want to view to display the page or file.

If you cannot find a page in the FDA.gov Web Archive, you may want to try the Internet Archive Wayback Machine for FDA.gov. The non-profit Internet Archive has archived some (but not all) of FDA.gov pages and files since 1996.