Pharmaceutical development of drugs and the FDA

In 1890 the division under went another rather insignificant name change to the Division of Chemistry and, in 1901 was renamed the Bureau of Chemistry. The Bureau of Chemistry subsequently became the Food, Drug and Insecticide Administration in 1927 and, finally, officially, the Food and Drug Administration in 1930. 

One of the first significant empowerments of the fledgling FDA was when Congress enacted the Food and Drug Act (also known as the Wiley Act) in 1906 directed to address unhygienic conditions in Chicago s meat-packing plants (see Upton Sinclair s 

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Soon after marketing of the elixir began, a physician in Oklahoma reported to the American Medical Association (AMA), not the FDA, that he had recently seen six people who had died of kidney damage and who, coincidentally, had all taken Elixir Sulfanilamide. He was curious as to what the contents of the preparation were. After initial attempts to discover the ingredients in the elixir were rebuffed by the 

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