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USDA Established
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is a cabinet-level agency that oversees the American farming industry. USDA duties range from helping farmers with price support subsidies, to inspecting food to ensure the safety of the American public. The department seeks to expand overseas markets for U.S. agricultural products and support international economic development; provide financing needed to create jobs; improve housing, utilities and infrastructure in rural America; and improve nutrition -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The original Food and Drugs Act is passed by Congress on June 30 and signed by President Theodore Roosevelt. It prohibits interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks and drugs. -
Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act is passed requiring inspection of all meat sold across state lines. -
FDA Established
Though FDA can trace its origins back to the creation of the Agricultural Division in the Patent Office in 1848, its origins as a federal consumer protection agency began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act. This law was the culmination of about 100 bills over a quarter-century that aimed to rein in long-standing, serious abuses in the consumer product marketplace.
Federal public health protection was vigorously advocated by Harvey Washington Wiley, who at the time was chief che -
1st Certified Color Regulations
requested by manufacturers and users, list seven colors found suitable for use in foods. -
Gould Amendment
requires that food package contents be "plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count." -
McNary-Mapes Amendment
The so-called "Canner's Amendment" authorized FDA standards of quality and fill-of-container for canned food, excluding meat and milk products. -
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
Extending control to cosmetics and therapeutic devices.
Requiring new drugs to be shown safe before marketing-starting a new system of drug regulation.
Eliminating the Sherley Amendment requirement to prove intent to defraud in drug misbranding cases.
Providing that safe tolerances be set for unavoidable poisonous substances.
Authorizing standards of identity, quality, and fill-of-container for foods.
Authorizing factory inspections.
Adding the remedy of court injunctions to the previous penalti -
Delaney Clause
enacted, requiring manufacturers of new food additives to establish safety. The Delaney proviso prohibits the approval of any food additive shown to induce cancer in humans or animals. -
FSIS Established
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is the public health regulatory agency -
saccharin study and labeling act
stop the FDA from banning the chemical sweetener. The legislation instead requires a warning on the label of products containing saccharin stating, "Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. This product contains saccharin which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals." -
food and drug administration act
officially establishes FDA as an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services with a Commissioner of Food and Drugs appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, and broadly spells out the responsibilities of the Secretary and the Commissioner for research, enforcement, education, and information. -
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
establishes specific labeling requirements, provides a regulatory framework, and authorizes FDA to promulgate good manufacturing practice regulations for dietary supplements. This act defines "dietary supplements" and "dietary ingredients" and classifies them as food. The act also establishes a commission to recommend how to regulate claims. -
Fair packaging and Labeling Act
requires all consumer products in interstate commerce to be honestly and informatively labeled, with FDA enforcing provisions on foods, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices.