100 Years A Select History of the FDA 1906 Congress passes the Pure Food and Drugs Act, prohibiting interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks, and drugs. 1912 Congress enacts the ...

Based on analysis of qualitative legislative histories and econometric evidence, we argue that the adoption of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act was due to all three factors. Select producer groups ...

Food dyes have a profound effect on how we perceive and react to food. Unfortunately, science proves that those bright hues ...

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A consumer advocate named Harvey W. Wiley started the FDA in 1906, through the Pure Food and Drug Act, in part a response to the snake oil problem. Wiley also had a passion for food safety.

The passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act (also known as the Wiley Act), the country’s first major legislation on food and drug safety, banned the sale of adulterated or mislabeled products.

After two decades, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drugs Act in 1906, largely written by Wiley.

In 1906 the government responded by passing the Pure Food and Drug Act. This law prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious food, ...

Professor George Obeng Adjei, Director, Centre for Tropical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Ghana Medical School, says clinical trials remain the recognised methods for evaluating the ...