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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?
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Pure Food and Drug Act Cleaning Up the Food and Drug Industries
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.
Progressive Victory? • Today we benefit from this Progressive victory!! • Why????