Pure Food And Drug Act Analysis

This history of legislation of both the sale and use of alcohol and drugs in the United States has been considered one of the longest-running policies that our history has seen. The first federal drug policy that the United States restricted the use of

The Food and Drug Administration, also known as the FDA or USFDA, is responsible for protecting and advocating public health. They are the official government agency that ensures our drug supply is safe and effective. This is achieved through the regulation and supervision of food safety, dietary supplements, veterinary products, cosmetics, vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, prescription and pharmaceutical drugs that can be purchased over- the- counter.

This act, under the direct administration of the Bureau of Chemistry, forbade the interstate transport of illegal food and drugs, and exposed any responsible parties, that dare to violate the law, to penalty of seizure of the questionable products and/or prosecution. In fact, the foundation of the law relies on the regulation of product labeling rather than pre-market approval. The selling of Drugs, which are defined according to the standards of strength, quality, and purity in the United States Pharmacopoeia and the National Formulary, is denied under any other condition except that the specific variations from the applicable standards were clearly stated on the label. However, there were different standards that defined foods, but the law outlawed the addition of any ingredients that would alternate for the food, hide damage, generate a health danger, or constitute a filthy or decomposed substance. The controversial interpretations of the food provisions in the law engendered many, sometimes prolonged, court battles. In case the manufacturer decided to list the weight or measure of a food, this had to be done accurately. Also, the food or drug label could not be false or misleading in any particular, and the presence and amount of eleven dangerous ingredients, including alcohol, heroin, and cocaine, had to be listed (Nash 276-77).

Barkan, Ilyse D. Industry invites regulation: the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. American Journal of Public Health January 1985: Vol. 75, No. 1, pp.

In the very early 1900s, the country’s attention began to turn from the problems of primitive man to the safety of a consumer society who no longer was watching their food supply grow on their own property. Mass production was in its infancy, as well as modern pharmacology, and although the ability to produce food and drugs in a factory setting was there, the necessary safety precautions had not yet been laid out. People were getting ill or even dying in huge numbers because there was no regulations on the production of consumer goods. While this was not such a problem when dealing with toys, farm equipment, or even clothing, it was a massive problem when dealing with food or

The laws implemented by the government along with the help of these program how been a little effective on decreasing drug use in the society, but it still does not prevent any addict from getting their hands with drugs. Some of the laws are the 1906 Pure Food Drug Act, which is not a strong law. The 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act required any manufacturers to include a labels on the amount of opium, heroin, morphine, alcohol, and cocaine added in each product. The 1906 Pure Food

The Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914 was the first of many laws due to the laissez-faire attitude toward drug use in the United States. Brecher 1972 states (as cited in Powell & Redford, 2016) society’s view on drugs was not problematic until the end of the nineteenth century. After the Civil War, a widespread epidemic of drugs swept across the nation, which fuels the drug wars of today (Powell & Brecher, 2016).

The Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987 was signed into law on April 22nd 1988. The law was made to protect people from the purchasing and consuming tampered products. This includes counterfeit, adulterated, misbranded, or expired drugs. The FDA takes a special point to monitor counterfeit medication. Lately there are many serious counterfeit drugs that have been killing people. One example is that they have been finding many counterfeit drugs that contain fentanyl. Because this is such a potent pain killer people are accidentally overdosing.

The United States Food and Drug Administration, also known as the FDA, is the government agency “responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological product, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and product that emit radiation.” It is “also responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medicines more effective, safer, and more affordable. Created under the Theodore Roosevelt administration under the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act, the FDA still operates as a part of the federal bureaucracy. What if the very institution supposed to be looking out for the public health and advancement of medical

In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of Moxatag, a once daily extended release formulation of amoxicillin, for the treatment of streptococcal pharyngitis. The clinical study results indicated that Moxatag was as safe and effective as penicillin V, the first drug of choice for the treatment of pharyngitis (Infectious Disease Society of America, 2013). Moxatag is the only once daily medication FDA approved for the treatment of pharyngitis. The manufacturer claims that once daily dosing will improve compliance, thus improving patient outcomes. Moxatag is very expensive relative to immediate release penicillin. Price comparisons found a difference of 144 dollars between Moxatag and the next equivalent medication. There are equivalent alternative medications, although these medications have their own drawbacks, being off label, intramuscular injectable or increased doses per day. Also, on August 25, 2014 it was announced that a generic for Moxatag is being produced (Fera, 2014), which will introduce a lower cost once daily alternative. Once this medication is introduced, it may offer a better option than the current alternatives to Moxatag. For the time being, however, I believe that with good prescribing practices, these current alternatives are effective and significantly less expensive, which make Moxatag unnecessary to prescribe.

Drug addictions were increasing and something had to be done to help the situation. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the single most effective law passed to help alleviate the effects of improper drug use. The Act accomplished three things:

The Federal government has remained silent on the subject of food labeling since passing the Labeling and Education Act of 1990, which introduced the now-familiar nutrition label and serving size information found on the majority of packaged foods. That legislation, however, purposefully excluded businesses selling ready-to-eat food.

I just stepped in what I think is a bag that used to contain some sort of narcotic and a napkin with vomit all over it. I could tell it was a puke-soaked cloth from the way my shoe slightly sunk into the ground and made a noise similar to that of dipping a spoon into a pot of macaroni and cheese. I knew it was a bag that used to contain drugs because this is a California Cchinatown, a.k.a. the land of conspicuous drug deals. I remember I used to see “transactions” all the time right after we moved here. One time, around four years ago, when I was eight, I saw a black man wearing a wifebeater and saggy jeans trade brown paper bags with a Vietnamese man wearing the same thing. They looked around cautiously, got really close to each other and

The food drug administration should become more hands on when it comes to the way that farmers and producers harvest there produce. “The food industry hires for-profit inspection companies-known as third-party auditors-who aren’t required by law to meet any federal standards and have no government supervision.”(Armour, Lippert and Smith p.2) The workers hired by food industries are not required by law to make their findings public. Most workers who find problems with the local produce stores and produce farmers are not reporting that there may or may not be diseases found in produce. The focus should be to help prevent anymore foodborne illness, educate the public, and create more technology that will protect the consumers.

“We saw meat shoveled from filthy wooden floors, piled on tables rarely washed, pushed from room to room in rotten box carts” (The Neill-Reynolds Report). This quote shows that meat packing plants were disgusting and needed to be changed. In the year 1906, Roosevelt fixed the cleanliness issue within meat packing plants by establishing the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act. The Federal Meat inspection Act made it a requirement that a facility has been inspected for cleanliness while the Pure Food and Drug Act made sure the labelling didn't lie and say certain things didn’t have crazy effects like curing cancer or instantaneously getting rid of headaches.