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Abraham Lincoln signed legislation to establish the USDA two and a half years after his final message to congress calling it the peoples department.
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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
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prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured sanitary slaughtering and processing of livestock.
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responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products,
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an act for preventing the manufacture sale or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods drugs medicines and liquors
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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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tightened controls over drugs and food, included new consumer protection against unlawful cosmetics and medical devices,
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a substance that imparts color is a color additive and is subject to premarket approval requirements unless the substance is used solely for a purpose other than coloring.
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to ban food additives which are found to cause or induce cancer in humans or animals as indicated by testing.
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for individual chemicals or substances added to food products that experts deem safe. If a food manufacturing company uses a GRAS ingredient or additive, it can avoid the time-consuming process of getting it approved by the FDA as a safe ingredient
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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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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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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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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: (1) the serving size or other common household unit of measure customarily used;
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a model on safeguarding public health and ensuring food is unadulterated and honestly presented when offered to the consumer.
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Manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements and dietary ingredients are prohibited from marketing products that are adulterated or misbranded.
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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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requires that the label of a food that contains an ingredient that is or contains protein from a "major food allergen " declare the presence of the allergen in the manner described by the law.
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aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus to preventing contamination of the food supply