Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

The Food and Drug Administration, established June 30th 1906 by Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley, is an essential part of our federal government. It began after the Food and Drug act was passed in 1906. It was intended to regulate misbranded food and drugs (The History of FDA's Fight for Consumer Protection and Public Health) and has evolved into what it is now, regulating everything from food to supplements to cosmetics to pacemakers. The FDA consists of one commissioner and four other directorates to function. Within the office of the commissioner, there are 7 people: the commissioner, executive and special assistants, a chief of staff, a regulatory advisor, and the senior advisor and counselors to the commissioner (Immediate…

In order to comply with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), it is a requirement that manufacturers obtain Food and Drug Administration(FDA) approval before proceeding to market any brand-name or generic drug in interstate commerce. The generic drug must have the same chemical counterparts as the approved brand-name drug. Once the drug is approved, the manufacturer is not allowed to make any vital changes to the overall quantifiable formulation of the drug product such as the active…

Before the Toxic Substances Control Act was passed by the United States law in 1976, the human population was believed to have been exposed to a multitude of chemical substances and mixtures. These chemicals were beginning to cause a lot of health problems to humans. This caused the lawmakers to believe that among the substances that are being constantly developed and produced, there are some whose manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, use or disposal may present an unreasonable…

The Pure food and drug act was and still is a needed policy for our relatively young nation, because if it wasn’t instated we would still be consuming Chalked thinned milk and Diseased meat from improper food processing and sale of these botched products. This improper use or mishaps still happen to this modern day and this act has been in effect since 1906 just a little over a hundred years. Considering the most recent contamination of this is with iceberg and romaine lettuce and it was four…

In my opinion, I believe that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should have mentioned the EpiPen characteristics that made the product unsafe. For example, instead of broadly saying that the company didn’t follow the guidelines and had product failures, they could have explained in more detail the exact thing that wasn’t right. I would have also liked to see some visual representations of the EpiPen to see the differences of how Mylan was selling the product in comparison to how it should…

Corkill, Katherine. "Are Cosmetic or Skincare Products FDA Approved or Certified?" Personal Care Truth or Scare. Personal Care Truth, 16 July 2013. Web. 16 Nov. 2016. In this article, Corkill explains why a lot of cosmetic companies are not actually FDA Approved or even FDA Certified. She explained how the labeling on these products may be misleading to the customers. Instead, she gave information on what the FDA actually approves. She notes that having that label isn’t approving the cosmetic…

The administrative agency that is in charge of regulating cigarettes and other tobacco products is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety efficacy and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation (retrieved from http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/default.htm). From this description the main purpose of the FDA…

Sinclair began to release his findings as a serial in Appeal to Reason, nearly doubling the newspaper’s circulation in about a year. After rejection by five different publishers, The Jungle was released as a novel in 1906. It was an instant success; meat sales plummeted, it was translated into 17 languages so that immigrants could also read it, and thousands of letters were written to the White House calling for meatpacking reform. President Theodore Roosevelt, not believing what he read,…

want to change it. The author of The Jungle and the producers of Food, Inc. are no exception. Both The Jungle and Food, Inc. set out to reveal the food industry and they have changed the what people know ever since. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906 with a clear purpose, to expose the American meatpacking industry and the lives or immigrants living in the U.S. He wanted people to know what was really going on behind the scenes and the grisly conditions the workers worked in. Sinclair…

Propaganda in “The Jungle” The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a novel exploiting the lives of Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago during the Industrial Revolution of the early 19th century. The immigrants have a goal of achieving the American dream, and as the story goes on they are faced with the horrors of the meat packing industry. Upton Sinclair is a yellow journalist and muckraker during the progressive era, therefore the story is bound to have exaggeration in order for him to succeed in…