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Food and Drug Legislation in the New Deal
By (Author) Charles O. Jackson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Jurisprudence and general issues
344.0423273
Hardback
262
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
In June 1938, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law a new Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the first major legislation regulating these industries since the 1906 Wiley law. Eliminating many serious and long-standing abuses in production, labeling, and advertising, the 1938 Act was, in the words of David L. Cowen, "a milestone in federal interest in co