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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 seems to be to protect people’s health and making sure that the food we eat, or the…

19th and early 20th century people were beginning to pay attention to science and some used the science they were learning to look closer at the food and drugs that were distributed across the nation. As the scientists looked closer what they found was often deadly to whoever consumed it. These findings made people look at the industries the foods or drugs came from and found that corruption and greed was taking control. People were making shortcuts to get more money or poisoning people they…

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…

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…

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…

this website, it explains the roles and collaborations of both the U.S Phamacopeial and the FDA and how they work together to promote public health. In detail, it explains exactly what the U.S Phamacopeial and the FDA does and its procedures. Under drugs and biologics it list how companies could be misbranded and deem adulterated if doesn’t comply with compendial identity standards. The information give in the website is useful to help understand the ways the FDA and the U.S Phamacopeial seem…

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,…

human history, there have always been people who step up to make a change in our world. When people encounter something they don’t like they 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…

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…

lead to better regulation of labor and food distribution laws. Sinclair's novel is brought to life through the eyes of a Lithuanian immigrant by the name of Jurgis Rudkus, a meatpacker at Brown and Durnham’s meatpacking industries. The novel did a lot to revolutionize the way we view food and how it it is handled, sanitized and distribution of these products. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is still notorious present day for its shocking revelations about food, but while discussing these things it…