Food Laws

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Prevents the manufacture, sale, or transportation of poisonous foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors.
  • Meat Inspection Act

    Make sure meat is properly slaughtered and sanitized.
  • Food and Drug Administration Act

    Spells out the responsiblities of the FDA for research, enforcement, education, and information.
  • Gould Ammendment

    requiring that the contents of any food package had to be “plainly marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure etc.
  • McNary-Mapes Amendment

    Quality to fill a container for canned food, excluding meat and milk products.
  • Food,Drug,and Cosmetic Act

    Authority to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,to over see food drug and cosmetic saftey
  • Delaney Clause

    A part of the 1958 Food Addi- tives Amendment.governs regulation of pesticide residues in processed foods.
  • Fair Packaging and Labeling Act

    Requiring that all consumer commodities be labeled to disclose net content.
  • Saccharin Study and Labeling Act

    Stops FDA from banning the chemical sweetener and requires a warning label of products that contain saccharin.
  • 1st Certified color Regulations

    The food had to be a certin color to be eaten.
  • Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act

    Regulated by the FDA for Good Manufacturing Practices under 21.