Pure Food and Drug Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

Cleaning Up the

Food and Drug Industries

What about this product?

Would you try these medicines?

Do You Know Anyone Who Could Use These?

Look at Coke’s First Claims

What are the problems with these products?

• What are the ingredients?

• What are the test results?

• What are the dangers?

• Are they addictive?

• Do they really work?

Pure Food and Drug Act-1906

• For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation

• of adulterated or misbranded

• or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors,

• and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes

Pure Food and Drug Act

• Creation of the Food and Drug Administration, which was entrusted with the responsibility of testing all foods and drugs destined for human consumption

• The requirement for prescriptions from licensed physicians before a patient could purchase certain drugs

• The requirement of label warnings on habit-forming drugs.

Required Testing Process for a Prescription Drug

Prescription Labels

Honoring the Act

Progressive Victory?

• Today we benefit from this Progressive victory!!

• Why????