Excerpts from Pure Food and Drug Act
"...For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, and liquors, and for regulating traffic, and for other purposes..."
"...That the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce and
Labor shall make uniform rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this Act, including the collection and examination of specimens of foods and drugs manufactured or offered for sale in the District of Columbia, or in any Territory of the United States..."
"...That the examinations of specimens of foods and drugs shall be made in the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture..."
"...In the case of confectionery: If it contain terra alba, barytes, talc, chrome yellow, or other mineral substance or poisonous color flavor, or other ingredient deleterious or detrimental to health, or any vinous, malt, or spirituous liquor or compound or narcotic drug."
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Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
Discussion Questions
1. What concerns of the Progressives were met by the final Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?
2. As a result of the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, what powers were granted to the federal government to enforce this law?
Lesson V: The Final Product - Pure Food & Drug Act