Dental Products and the Federal Food and Drugs Act*†*This article was deemed of sufficient importance by the editorial staff to have it used in lieu of the customary council report for this month.—Editor.†Chief and ‡chemist, respectively, of the Drug Control Unit, Food and Drug Administration, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

1933 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-361
Author(s):  
F.J. Cullen ◽  
H. Wales
Keyword(s):  
Drug Administration ◽  
Food And Drug Administration ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Drug Control ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Federal Food ◽  
Council Report ◽  
Dental Products

PUBLIC HEALTH

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 480-484
Author(s):  
George P. Larrick
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Drug Administration ◽  
Food And Drug Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Drug Control ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Federal Food ◽  
States Government

IN THE United States, government control of drug manufacture is accomplished largely through application of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. This is a law of broad scope, which deals with such important matters as the purity, potency, safety, labeling and methods of distribution of drugs imported into the country or shipped from one state to another. The Food and Drug Administration administers this law. I shall describe the drug control provisions of the law, discuss briefly the development of some of its more important aspects, and mention some current problems with which we in the Food and Drug Administration are now dealing. The United States law provides three principal types of control over drugs. These are 1) the certification procedures; 2) the new drug procedures; and 3) the general procedures applicable to drugs that do not fall into the first two groups.

Survey of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Smoked Foods

1968 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-121
Author(s):  
A J Malanoski ◽  
E L Greenfield ◽  
C J Barnes ◽  
J M Worthington ◽  
F L Joe
Keyword(s):  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Drug Administration ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Food And Drug Administration ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

Abstract A survey was conducted jointly by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture to ascertain the types and amounts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons present in smoked foods. The samples include many varieties of meat products, poultry, fish, and other miscellaneous items. All samples were analyzed by the published methods of Howard et al. Results indicate that many smoked foods contain small amounts (0.5—7.0 ppb) of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

The Mane Course

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
ike sriskandarajah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drug Administration ◽  
Food And Drug Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Meat Industry ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
States Department ◽  
Passing Off ◽  
Game Meat

The small but growing world of exotic meat allows adventurous appetites a taste of the wild. But as Reporter Ike Sriskandarajah found out, game meat is vastly unregulated and sometimes illegal. He follows the trail of lion meat sold at his corner grocer to a shady corner of the meat industry. Along the way he meets with store owners, online exotic meat retailers, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Fish and Wildlife Service. Few can say where the lions come from, but all signs point to a big cat-skinning operation in a Chicago suburb. The butcher associated with it has been in the game for years and was arrested for passing off meat from endangered tigers, leopards, and ligers as legal lion meat. Tests conducted by the FDA show that he is back to his old tricks, selling mislabeled game meat. This investigation shows that we can eat almost anything—but the story behind where our meat comes from can make it hard to swallow.

Bias at the Gate?: The Pharmaceutical Industry's Influence on the Federally Approved Drug Compendia

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-163
Author(s):  
Lindsey Gabrielsen
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Pharmaceutical Company ◽  
Drug Administration ◽  
Food And Drug Administration ◽  
The Other ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Off Label ◽  
Treatment Of Epilepsy ◽  
Clinical Indications ◽  
Federal Food

As of 2002, the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Neurontin, a drug developed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, for two uses, the treatment of epilepsy and pain related to shingles. A staggering ninety-four percent of Neurontin prescriptions in the prior five years, however, were for other (non-FDA) approved uses. These other uses effectively tripled Medicaid’s costs for the drug between 1998 and 2003. Insurance companies covered the off-label uses because they appeared in the Drugdex compendium, a federally authorized listing of drugs that includes evidence regarding the drug’s effectiveness, clinical indications, and proper dosing. Drugdex included an additional forty-eight uses for Neurontin, ranging from bipolar disorder to the hiccups. Two other federally approved compendia existed at that time; one listed seven uses for Neurontin while the other listed only one.

Recovery of Heat-Stressed Listeria monocytogenes from Experimentally and Naturally Contaminated Shrimp

1990 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUSAN A. McCARTHY ◽  
MILES L. MOTES ◽  
R. MERRILL McPHEARSON
Keyword(s):  
Listeria Monocytogenes ◽  
Drug Administration ◽  
Food And Drug Administration ◽  
New Method ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Thermally Stressed

A method was developed to enhance recovery of thermally stressed Listeria monocytogenes from internally contaminated shrimp. Shrimp tail meat was inoculated with 105 L. monocytogenes cells/g and boiled for 1–5 min. Thermally stressed L. monocytogenes cells were recovered following cold enrichment for 3 d without broth. Methods of the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for isolating L. monocytogenes permitted recovery of the organism from shrimp boiled for 1 min: however, with the new method, L. monocytogenes cells were recovered from shrimp boiled up to 5 min. No Listeria spp. were recovered from naturally contaminated, frozen, imported shrimp after 1 min of boiling.

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