1/24/2018 American Food Laws American Food Laws Early food laws Early food laws Massachusetts Bay Colony (cont'd) 1820-US Pharmacopeia Convention was founded -1646,county courts of bread scientific non-profit organization to improve required bakers to label their bread health of people around the world via public and set required weights for 3 health standards qualities of bread identity.strength,quality,and purity of medicines,food ingredients,and Y SU two bread inspectors assigned to dietary supplements produced, each town to ensure the law was distributed,and consumed obeyed worldwide SP 1784-Massachusetts-first general law pharmacopeia:compendium of drug against adulteration information for the United States FDA enforces the standards today American Food Laws American Food Laws Early food laws Early food laws 1848-President Polk signed a Drug Importation Act 1862-Lincoln established the 85%of casualties in the war with Mexico USDA in 1846-1848 were due to poor quality of -Charles Wetherill appointed food and medicines as chief chemist Medicines banned in other became the Bureau of countries were imported and Chemistry within the USDA adulterated so higher doses were needed Later the bureau became the FDA Law targeted only imported drugs but not domestic drugs FDA 1/24/2018 6 • Massachusetts Bay Colony (cont’d) - 1646, county courts of bread required bakers to label their bread and set required weights for 3 qualities of bread two bread inspectors assigned to each town to ensure the law was obeyed • 1784 – Massachusetts – first general law against adulteration American Food Laws Early food laws • 1820 – US Pharmacopeia Convention was founded - scientific non-profit organization to improve health of people around the world via public health standards - identity, strength, quality, and purity of medicines, food ingredients, and dietary supplements produced, distributed, and consumed worldwide - pharmacopeia: compendium of drug information for the United States - FDA enforces the standards today American Food Laws Early food laws • 1848 - President Polk signed a Drug Importation Act - 85% of casualties in the war with Mexico in 1846-1848 were due to poor quality of food and medicines - Medicines banned in other countries were imported and adulterated so higher doses were needed - Law targeted only imported drugs but not domestic drugs American Food Laws Early food laws • 1862 – Lincoln established the USDA - Charles Wetherill appointed as chief chemist - became the Bureau of Chemistry within the USDA - Later the bureau became the FDA American Food Laws Early food laws