Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

Everyday American men and women are putting their health at risk by unknowingly ingesting harmful chemicals from their daily cosmetic products. In Europe, approximately 1,300 chemicals are prohibited for use in personal care products, while about only a dozen are banned or limited in the United States (Dennis). Studies have linked certain chemicals and ingredients contained in cosmetics to allergic reactions, environmental concerns, disruption of the endocrine system, developmental, reproductive…

The United States Food and Drug Administration is the government agency responsible for regulating food, dietary supplements, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, biologics and blood products in the United States. The agency is authorized by the government to inspect, test, approve, and set safety standards for foods, chemicals, medical devices, cosmetics, and household devices (britanica.org). Made up of 2,100 scientist including chemists, pharmacologists, physicians, microbiologists,…

The origin of The Food and Drug Administration can be traced in 1848 at the Patent Office, when Lewis Caleb Beck was examining chemicals in agricultural products. Yet, The Food and Drug Administration began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act. Upton Sinclair, Samuel Hopkins, and the Chief Chemist of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture, Harvey Washington Wiley, were able to express the needs for the act in The Jungle. This final push was exactly what was…

years the testing of cosmetics on animals has been considered a major issue in the US and globally. Cosmetic testing is the most controversial area of animal testing. Each and every cosmetic product used by women is first tested on animals. Approximately, 20 million animals are used for all kinds of testing every year. Not only several leading cosmetics companies have already stopped testing products on animals, but also the European Union, Israel, and Norway have banned cosmetic testing on…

questions: • Briefly explain what the FDA is, it’s mission, and how it achieves its mission. FDA (U.S. Food & Drugs Administration): It is a federal administration which protects the safety and public health of the U.S. The mission of the FDA is to ensure the safety of every American family by ensuring the control and the potency of the products offered to the population, such as food supply, cosmetics, medical devices, medications, and others. Also, the goals are to provide obtainable and…

RANBAXY DRUG-ADULTERATION CONTROVERSY The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of United States (abbreviated as FDCA) is a set of laws passed by Congress in 1938 giving authority to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the country to oversee the safety of food, drugs, and cosmetics. As per the act: A drug is adulterated if the methods used in or the facilities or controls used for its manufacturing, processing, packing or holding do not conform to or are not operated or administered in conformity…

easier to grow than its wild counterpart. Modern genetically modified corn is now also herbicide resistance and can even produce its own insecticide to produce a greater yield. A big question going around currently is that “Are genetically modified foods safe?”. According to recent studies done over the past 10 years, scientists have found…

different than that of a mouse or rabbit. Many drugs have passed animal tests but are not necessarily safe for humans. In the 1950s there was a sleeping pill called thalidomide which had been tested on animals before it’s release. This pill had caused 10,000 babies to be born with deformities. This shows that animal testing could be potentially dangerous to us because of our different anatomies. There was another drug that Vioxx, which was an arthritis drug that had a protective effect on the…

they see a wide variety of cosmetics. There is mascara that promises to make one’s eyelashes look 300 times fuller and perfume that smells like a fresh garden. However, there is hardly any thought on whether these products will burn one’s eyes or cause a rash; this is because animals are taking the pain for the price of beauty. In the cosmetics industry alone, it is estimated that 100,000-200,000 animals suffer and die every year in America due to testing ("About Cosmetics Animal Testing :…

approximately 100,000,000 animals suffer and die yearly from cosmetic testing. Experiments are conducted on these animals to determine whether or not new products might cause skin and/or eye irritation. Animals that are allegedly protected underneath the Animal Welfare Act do not have the protection that the law has promised, but yet they should. The federal government should enforce and develop stricter laws regarding animal testing within the cosmetic manufacturing industry which would…