Adulteration act

Food drugs are generally controlled through a common administration i.e. FDA (Food Drugs Administration in various states/country). The main objective of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act is to make provision for the prevention of adulteration of food. The Act was passed in 1954 Rules under the Act were passed in 1955. 

In the UK at least, the Adulteration Act of 1860, the result of the deliberations of the above committee, was the beginning of a more scientific approach to authentication of fats and oils. However, it was still being stated after the turn of the century (Sloane 1907) that, in the USA, butter was being adulterated by oleomargarine and lard, and cream by cottonseed oil and other fats. Indeed the USA equivalent of the UK Adulteration Act, the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, was only passed after a series of even later cases of adulteration coconut and cottonseed replacing cocoa butter and milk-fat (1922), peanut oil in olive oil (1923), lard contaminating butter (1926) and sesame oil in olive oil used in tinned sardines (1936) (Kurtzweil, 1999). 

The Government of India enacted a Central legislation called the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act (PFA) which came into effect from 1st June 1955. This Act repealed all laws existing at that time in Indian States concerning food adulteration, a new edition was published 1981. 

Anon., 2001. The Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 . Eastern Book Company, Lucknow, India. 

National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Program National Institute of Nutrition Prevention of Food Adulteration Act Thyroid-stimulating hormone United Nations International Children s Emergency Fund Union territory... 

Standards for production of iodized salt have been laid under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act (PFA). 

Product tampering may be a foreseeable possibility and manufacturers have a responsibility to protect consumers against such possible acts. If a product iu an adulterated form could harm a consumer, manufacturers have the responsibiUty of protecting the product and consumer against such acts, meaning the use of tamper-evident packaging transcends FDA regulations. 

Any substance that is not GRAS or sanctioned by use prior to 1958 (prior sanctioned) is considered a food additive. The Act prohibits the marketing of a food additive unless PDA has pubHshed a regulation that approves the intended use of the substance (22). A food additive is deemed unsafe if it is used without an approving regulation a food is deemed adulterated if it is, bears, or contains an unapproved food additive. 

The original Food and Drugs Act is passed prohibiting misbranded and adulterated food and drugs. 

Inexperienced users or individuals who are exposed to the drug unexpectedly (e.g., who unknowingly consume PCP-adulterated cannabis) may develop severe anxiety and panic because of the intensity and variety of symptoms. Perceptual distortions have sometimes led to extremely violent behavior, accidents, or self-damaging acts. An especially high risk of violent behavior has been reported in acutely intoxicated PCP users who have a history of psychiatric problems. Intoxication with doses in excess of 150 mg may lead to convulsions, coma, and death from respiratory arrest. Other complications include hypertensive crisis, intracerebral hemorrhage, and renal failure (Table 6-5). 

US legislation on food additives consists of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD C Act), the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, and other applicable laws including the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act. The FD C Act states that foods are adulterated if they contain color additives that have not been approved as safe to the satisfaction of the Food Drug Administration (FDA) for a particular use. ... 

The Import Drugs Act—the first federal statute to ensure the quality of drugs—was passed when quinine used by American troops in Mexico to treat malaria was found to be adulterated... 

A revision of the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, passed in 1938, added several provisions that impacted the food industry. Among those provisions were authorized factory inspections and the authority for court injunction to the previous seizure and prosecution actions (Janssen, 1992). Adulterated food was now defined as Sec. 402, A food shall be deemed to be adulterated if it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance, or if it is otherwise unfit for food, or if it has been prepared, packed or held under unsanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health. The importance of the whereby clause is the concept that a food product need not be contaminated physically to be considered adulterated, but has been exposed to conditions that may have resulted in contamination of the food. This situation is vastly different from that which existed at the time the 1906 Food and Drug Act was passed. 

Passage of Pure Food Act, including provisions for the regulations of drags to prevent the sale of misbranded and adulterated products. Enforcement by the Chemistry Laboratory, Agriculture. 

The Drug Importation Act passed to stop the entry of adulterated drugs. 

The Food and Drugs Act prohibits interstate commerce of adulterated drugs. 

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