Parliamentary Select Committee on Patent Medicines

The stimulus to drug regulation ultimately came following the publications of two BMA papers entitled Secret Remedies in 1909 and More Secret Remedies in 1912. These prompted a Parliamentary Select Committee on Patent Medicines to be set up. This Select Committee reported in 1914, but the outbreak of war resulted in the shelving of all proposed legislation. 

This study had very little impact on generating public or political concern to set up a regulatory authority. However, the appearance of two publications by the BMA concerning certain proprietary medicines, entitled Secret Remedies (1909) and More Secret Remedies (1912), caused a Parliamentary Select Committee on Patent Medicines to be set up. This Select Committee reported in 1914, but World War I intervened and all the proposed legislation was shelved. It is worth listing several of the recommendations of this Committee, some of which had to wait until the Medicines Act (1968) controlled and kept standards under review, and many of these became internationally recognized. 

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