Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

• Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (34 Stat. 768) was the first federal law prohibiting the interstate transportation and sale of ad...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Po–San

• Public health and the placebo: the legacy of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.

The current literature regarding Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation of drugs generally focuses on measuring the costs and benefits of the r...

• The Cato Journal
• Vol. 21 Nbr. 3, January 2002

• 'Dread Executioner' Cholera Was Once On the March in Central Ill.

The most feared killer of the 19th century was cholera. "Quite often a person would be taken with the cholera and in three hours would be dead," recalled Bloomington physician William Elder. The rapidity in which it could take life was but one terrible aspect of this diarrheal affliction. In 1866, the monthly periodical Hall's Journal of Health referred to cholera's "viperic and malignant influence, which, in its remorseless tread, wrecks so much of human happiness and desolates so many hearthstones. Cholera outbreaks are usually traced to water contaminated with human feces. The illness takes the form of watery diarrhea, vomiting and severe cramps, with death resulting from dehydration, the collapse of the circulatory system and shock. Although London physician John Snow first made th...

... occurred long before passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, it comes as little surp...

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• May 15, 2012

• Apha Celebrates a Century of Public Health, Safety Protections On the Anniversary of the Founding of the Food and Drug Adminstration

WASHINGTON, June 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Public Health Association (APHA) today recognizes the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, the founding law of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The measure ushered in an era of continuous strengthening of public health protections and their enforcement. Americans enjoy a much longer life and higher quality life thanks largely to the many public health and safety protections established during the last 100 years, including the creation and enforcement of policies through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration," said Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, executive director of APHA.

• U.S. Newswire
• June 30, 2006

• FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 529 U.S. 120 (2000)

... . OCTOBER TERM, 1999. Syllabus. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ET AL. v. BROWN & WILLIA... to regulate tobacco products under the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, ch. 3915, 34 Stat. 768,...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• U.S. consumer protection law: a federalist patchwork.

... (e.g., the Federal Trade Commission Act), food and drugs (e.g., the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)...Created by the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and strengthened by the ...

• Defense Counsel Journal
• Vol. 78 Nbr. 3, July 2011

• Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to amend its regulation for Current Good Manufacturing Practice In Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Human Food (CGMPs) to modernize it and to add requirements for domestic and foreign facilities that are required to register under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act) to establish and implement hazard analysis and risk- based preventive controls for human food. FDA also is proposing to revise certain definitions in FDA's current regulation for Registration of Food Facilities to clarify the scope of the exemption from registration requirements provided by the FD&C Act for ``farms.'' FDA is taking this action as part of its announced initiative to revisit the CGMPs since they were last revised in 1986 and to i...

... Federal level, these efforts go back to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, the United States' firs...

• Federal Register Nbr. 78 FR 3646, January 16, 2013
• Proposed rules
• Health and Human Services Department

• Regulating Market Excesses

There are many people in this country, including op-ed writer Jim Armstrong ("Let the American economy do its work," April 29), who persist in their naive belief in mankind as a wholly noble and selfless race that will always have the world's best interests at heart, and thus deny the value of any governmental regulation of commerce. Centuries of actual human history, however, invariably prove them wrong.

... required us to read Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel "The Jungle," because it opened my eyes to ... passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. America's food tycoons ...

• Roanoke Times & World News
• May 21, 2012

• Uncle Sam Serves Up Food History in D.C.

By Brett Zongker The

... also includes the push for safeguards in the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The Archives holds a br...

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• July 05, 2011

• Babel Series Speaker Says Novelists Are Not Writing for Political Change

Despite his contention that novelists nearly always position themselves in support of justice, human rights and equality, award- winning author Russell Banks insists that writers of real literature don't, as a rule, actively advocate for political change. Banks, the author of a dozen literary novels, including the critically acclaimed "The Sweet Hereafter," published in 1991, opened Just Buffalo Literary Center's 2012-13 Babel Series on Thursday in Kleinhans Music Hall. The Babel Series, now in its sixth season, introduces local readers to renowned authors from around the world, who are then invited to Buffalo to meet and talk directly to their readers. Banks was the first American author invited to speak.

... Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," published in 1906. The latter exposed the horrors of the Chicago mea... the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and, ultimately, the cre...

• Buffalo News
• October 19, 2012