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Regulating Medicine

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From: American Decades
Date: 20010101
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REGULATING MEDICINE

The Pure Food and Drug Act

The Pure Food and Drug Act passed by Congress in 1906, in part as a response to muckraking reporter Samuel Hopkins Adams's expos é s in Collier's Weekly , did not have as great an effect as was hoped on the patent medicine market that Adams estimated to be worth $75 million a year. While the law discouraged the adulteration of foods and drugs and the misrepresentation of claims on labels and also led to somewhat improved sanitary conditions, it directly affected only the most brazen abuses. It did not call for the reporting of all ...

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