Pure+Food+and+Drug+Act

By. Maggie Bohn

2a) Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Department of Agriculture's chief chemist, who published his findings on the widespread use of harmful preservatives in the meat-packing industry.

2b) President Roosevelt was the president to sign the Pure Food and Drug Act into law.

2c) To creat a Food and Drug Administration, which was entrusted with the responsibility of testing all foods and drugs destined for human consumption, also the requirement for prescriptions from licensed physicians before a patient could purchase certain drugs, and finally the requirement of label warnings on habit-forming drugs. United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.

2d) Some other very intersting facts about the Pure Food and Drug Act are before 1907 all drugs could be sold and bought like any other consumer good. The Act passed on June 30th 1906.

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