Food and Drugs Act

Many laws have been enacted over the last century that affect drug distribution and administration. Those included here are the Pure Food and Drug Act Harrison Narcotic Act Pure Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. These laws control the use of the three categories of drugs in the United States (prescription, nonprescription, and controlled substances). 

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

The Pure Food and Drug Act established the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 

The Delaney Amendment to the Food and Drug Act addressed the control of food additives. 

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. 

Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA), 18 686, 688, 697 Food and Drugs Act, 18 683 Food and Nutrition Board (FNB), 17 646 Food antioxidants, 12 59-61 Food applications... 

In the years immediately following the 1906 enactment of the first federal food and drug act, Dr. 

To Wiley, the Food and Drug Act was his mandate to insure the country a pure and honest food supply more than it was a specific statute with specific legal requirements and limitations. Thus, although the law mentioned colors only to prohibit their addition to conceal inferiority and to ban their use, if poisonous, in confectionary, Wiley believed, as part of his overall suspicions of chemical additives, that the use of coal tar colors was a practice requiring, at the least, thorough investigation. 

In all cases where foods subject to the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, are found colored with dyes which contain either arsenic or other poisonous or deleterious ingredient which may render such foods injurious to health, the cases will be reported to the Department of Justice and prosecutions had" (63). 

Chief chemist Harvey W. Wiley (called the "Crusading Chemist" and "Father of the Pure Food and Drugs Act") campaigns for a federal drug safety law. 

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

In U.S. V Johnson, the Supreme Court rules that the Food and Drugs Act does not prohibit false therapeutic... 

FDA recommends revision of the Food and Drugs Act, launching a 5-year legislative battle. 

The Pure Food and Drug Act established the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which now oversees the manufacture and use of all foods, food additives, and drugs amendments (1938, 1958, and 1962) strengthened the law considerably. 

The Delaney Amendment to the Food and Drug Act defined and controlled food additives any additives showing an increase in cancer tumors in rats, even if extremely large doses were used in the animal studies, had to be outlawed in foods recent debates have focused on a number of additives, including the artificial sweetener cyclamate. 

The United States Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) originated in June 1906, when President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, which was to be implemented by the Bureau of Chemistry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Bureau, the oldest U.S. consumer... 

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