Pure Food and Drug Act

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Pure Food and Drug Act

• Cleaning Up the
• Food and Drug Industries

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What about this product?
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Would you try these medicines?
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Do You Know Anyone Who Could Use These?
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Look at Cokes First Claims
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What are the problems with these products?

• What are the ingredients?
• What are the test results?
• What are the dangers?
• Are they addictive?
• Do they really work?

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Pure Food and Drug Act-1906

• For preventing the manufacture, sale, or
  transportation
• of adulterated or misbranded
• or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs,
  medicines, and liquors,
• and for regulating traffic therein, and for other
  purposes

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Pure Food and Drug Act

• Creation of the Food and Drug Administration,
  which was entrusted with the responsibility of
  testing all foods and drugs destined for human
  consumption
• The requirement for prescriptions from licensed
  physicians before a patient could purchase
  certain drugs
• The requirement of label warnings on
  habit-forming drugs.

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Required Testing Process for a Prescription Drug
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Prescription Labels
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Honoring the Act
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Progressive Victory?

• Today we benefit from this Progressive victory!!
• Why????