The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 is a United States federal law that provided for federal inspection of meat products, and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products or poisonous patent medicines. The Act arose due to public education and exposées from authors such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams, social activist Florence Kelley, researcher Harvey W. Wiley, and President Theodore Roosevelt.Though the Pure Food and Drug Act was initially concerned with making sure products were labeled correctly (habit forming cocaine-based drugs were not illegal so long as they were labeled correctly), the labeling requirement gave way to efforts to outlaw certain products that were not safe, followed by efforts to outlaw products which were safe but not efficacious. Ironically, Coca-Cola Company's earlier advertising behind the Act was rewarded by an attempt to outlaw Coca-Cola in 1909 because of its excessive caffeine content as well as its cocaine content, albeit minuscule. In the case United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola, the judge found that Coca-Cola had a right to use caffeine as it saw fit, although excessive litigation costs caused Coca-Cola to settle out of court with the United States Government. The caffeine amount was reduced.The 1906 Act paved the way for the eventual creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is generally considered to be that agency's founding date. The law itself was largely replaced by the much more comprehensive Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938. See alsoFood safetyMeat Inspection ActQuackery

Following consultation with the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada, and other health authorities, Bayer announced today that it has elected to temporarily suspend worldwide marketing of Trasylol® (aprotinin injection) until final results from the Canadian BART..

The United States is not the only country to limit the approved uses of Ketek in the wake of deaths related to the drug. Health Canada has followed in the footsteps of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and removed the approval of Ketek for chronic bronchitis, tonsillitis/pharyngitis and bacterial sinusitis. Ketek will only be indicated to...

The Senate votes Monday on whether to allow lower-priced prescription drugs to be imported into the United States from Canada and elsewhere. The measure would allow pharmacies and drug wholesalers to importFood and Drug Administration-approved medicines from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan and New Zealand, where drugs can cost two-thirds less.

The Senate votes Monday on whether to allow lower-priced prescription drugs to be imported into the United States from Canada and elsewhere. The measure would allow pharmacies and drug wholesalers to import Food and Drug Administration-approved medicines from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan and New Zealand, where drugs can cost two-thirds less.

The Food and Drug Administration said it had inspected about 400 stores nationwide and still found some dog and cat food products affected by last month's recall by Canada-based pet food maker Menu Foods Income Fund and other manufacturers.