Food and drug legislation in the New Deal

Food and drug legislation in the New Deal /

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 Davi...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Jackson, Charles O.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1970
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
Drugs > Law and legislation > United States.
Food law and legislation > United States.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
Food.
Food
Legislation, Drug
New Deal.
food.
United States
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; CONTENTS; I. Through the Looking Glass; II. Lydia Pinkham and Other Washingtonians
  • III. The Troubles I've Seen; IV. I Like to Think About the Star Canopus
  • V. Tugwell and Tennessee Beat Us
  • VI. Much Power to Your Elbow
  • VII. Doctor Massengill's Elixir; VIII. Coda: Rally Round the Apple; IX. Anatomy of Reform; Bibliographical Essay; Index.

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