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1862- Oversee food production and agricultural research
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Protect public health by regulating all other foods and drugs
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prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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that prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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requires that contents be plainly marked on the outside of the food package, was added to the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act.
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Amendment authorizes FDA standards of quality and fill-of-container for canned food, excluding meat and milk products.
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The new law brought cosmetics and medical devices under control, and it required that drugs be labeled with adequate directions for safe use.
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The FDA first published a list of these generally recognized as safe
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requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban food additives which are found to cause or induce cancer in humans or animals as indicated by testing.
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An Act to protect the public health by amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the use in food of additives which have not been adequately tested to establish their safety.
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color additive" and required that only color additives (except coal-tar hair dyes) listed as "suitable and safe" for a given use could be used in foods, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices
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color additive" and required that only color additives (except coal-tar hair dyes) listed as "suitable and safe"
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The law authorized the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to require warning labels for household substances that were deemed hazardous.
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directs the Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration to issue regulations requiring that all "consumer commodities" be labeled to disclose net contents, identity of commodity, and name and place of business of the product's
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was a United States federal statute enacting requirements for a scientific observation regarding the impurities in, potential toxicity, and problematic carcinogenicity of a non-nutritive sweetener better known as saccharin.
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Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) to deem a food misbranded unless its label bears nutrition information that provides:
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is a 1994 statute of United States Federal legislation which defines and regulates dietary supplements.
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requires seafood processors to identify food safety hazards that are reasonably likely to occur and to develop plans for the control of those hazards.
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is guidance representing FDA's current thinking and is a model on safeguarding public health and ensuring food is unadulterated and honestly presented when offered to the consumer.
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requires all food labels in the United States to list ingredients that may cause allergic reactions
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The Food Safety Modernization Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama on January 4, 2011. The FSMA has given the Food and Drug Administration new authorities to regulate the way foods are grown, harvested and processed.