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The United States Department of Agriculture is the federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food.
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The United States Food and Drug Administration is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services
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To prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
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Preventing the manufacture sale or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods drugs
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Authorizes FDA standards of quality and fill-of-container for canned food, excluding meat and milk products.
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Brought cosmetics and medical devices under control, and it required that drugs be labeled with adequate directions for safe use
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Any substance intentionally added to food is a food additive and is subject to pre-market approval by FDA unless the use of the substance is generally recognized as safe.
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Requires the Food and Drug Administration to ban food additives which are found to cause or induce cancer in humans or animals as indicated by testing.
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FDA issued this proposed rule to enable the agency to use its resources more efficiently and effectively.
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Requires precautionary labeling on the immediate container of hazardous household products to help consumers safely store and use those products and to give them information about immediate first aid steps to take if an accident happens.
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defined "color additive" and required that only color additives listed as "suitable and safe" for a given use could be used in foods, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices.
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List of seven straight colors approved for use in food.
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To ensure that consumers were given enough information to make the right choice between competing products.
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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
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Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define a "dietary supplement" as a product.
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requires seafood processors to address all seafood safety hazards identified by the hazard analysis in their HACCP plan and to comply with part 117.
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Requires all food labels in the United States to list ingredients that may cause allergic reactions.
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Transforming the nation's food safety system by shifting the focus from responding to foodborne illness to preventing it.