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> Now why can't the FDA afford the space to keep their pages forever on their own site? Fill in your favorite conspiracy theory...

This seems like a prime example of Hanlon's razor. Tight government budgets and lowest-bidder contractors not bothering with page permanence strike me as the most likely explanation.

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It may also be worth observing that it's how pretty much any private company website operates. Arguably the FDA should be different and archive old, even outdated, content. But, while private companies may explicitly archive some materials like press releases and earnings reports, 99.9% of their focus is on the current content and they'll mostly just delete anything that's not in service of today.