Hygienic Laboratory bulletin no 7980 1912 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Digest of Comments on the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America, VIII, and on the National Formulary, III. I. GENERAL COMMENTS. 1. LEGAL STATUS AND... more » DEVELOPMENT. 1. PURE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT. McCabe, Geo. P., in an address delivered before the Utah Pharmaceutical Association, discusses the national food and drugs act of June 30, 1906, and the several provisions made for its enforcement.— Am. J. Pharm., Phila., 1909, v. 81, pp. 361-374. Also Western Druggist, Chicago, 1909, v. 31, pp. 465-467. Carter, Fred L., in the president's address to the members of the N. W. D. A., discusses the desirability of having the several State pure-drug laws conform with the Federal law, and points out that in at least a few of the States the laws differ from the national law in some important respects, and that this difference is detrimental to the interests of manufacturers and dealers engaged in interstate commerce.—Proc. N. W. D. A., 1909, p. 40. Wiley, H. W., calls attention to the compilation of the various Federal, State, Territorial, and other laws governing the sale and labeling of drug products in the United States and its Territories that has been made in the bureau under his supervision.—Ann. Rep. U. S. Dept. Agr. for 1909, 1910, p. 436. An editorial (Am. Druggist, N. Y., 1909, v. 55, p. 171) calls attention to a compilation of food and drug laws, published under the auspices of the National Wholesale Druggists'"Association and the Proprietary Association of America. McCabe, Geo. P., reports that 494 cases of violation of the food and drugs act of June 30. 1906, were reported by the department to the Attorney General and United States attorneys during the fiscal year. A detailed report, giving the name of the defendant, the judicial district, the nature of the...« less