FDA Wages War on Fake Contraptions
FDA wages war on fake contraptions sold with impossible claims, reads this undated FDA press photo. Modeled by an FDA employee, it claimed to cure tuberculosis and rheumatism with 20 drops dropped onto the cone. FDA scientists determined that it contained iodine, alcohol, chloroform, and oil of eucalyptus. By the 1930's consumer protection organizations, and federal regulators began a campaign for stronger regulatory authority by publicizing a list of injurious products that had been ruled permissible under the 1906 law, including radioactive beverages, the mascara Lash lure, which caused blindness, and worthless cures for diabetes and tuberculosis. The proposed law took five years to get through the Congress, but President Roosevelt signed the new Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act into law on June 24, 1938. It significantly increased federal regulatory authority over drugs by mandating a pre-market review of the safety of all new drugs, as well as banning false therapeutic claims in drug labeling without requiring that the FDA prove fraudulent intent.
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