Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

…and drug-delivery devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA, FDCA, or FD&C), the organization initiated action against the import of e-cigarettes. In January 2010, following a lawsuit by an e-cigarette distributor, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that e-cigarettes did not meet the…

…power from four laws: the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which established safety and purity standards and provided for factory inspection and for legal remedy; the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, which required honest, informative, and standardized labeling of products; the Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act, which…

In 1938 the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was passed, giving food coloring additives numbers (e.g., Amaranth was renamed FD&C Red No. 2) and requiring certification of each batch of coloring. Dyes again became the focus of controversy in the 1950s because the excessive use of certain…

The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 and the Wheeler-Lea Act (also 1938) provided a certain amount of governmental control over claims made in advertising, in newspapers and magazines, over radio and television, in circulars, and on labels. Such controls are exercised only on…