06.25.18
On June 25, 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act into law.
The new law required drug manufacturers to provide scientific proof that new products could be safely used before putting them on the market. The law also regulated cosmetics for the first time. After World War II, the law was amended to regulate antibiotics, which were made subject to FDA testing beginning with penicillin in 1945, and introduced a resolution to test the safety of chemicals, additives and artificial colors in food in 1949.
In 1962, drug amendments unanimously passed by Congress, tightened control over prescription drugs and new drugs. For the first time the law recognized that no drug was truly safe unless it was also effective, and effectiveness was required to be established prior to marketing -- a milestone advance in medical history.
When FDR signed the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act on June 25, 1938, Americans paid 25 cents a ticket to see Greta Garbo in Camille, they made an annual average of $1731 to buy their brand new $3900 home, and paid Harvard University $420 per year to send their kid to college. A lot has changed in 80 years!
The Personal Care Products Safety Act, introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, would reform this cosmetics law, as reported in Happi.
The new law required drug manufacturers to provide scientific proof that new products could be safely used before putting them on the market. The law also regulated cosmetics for the first time. After World War II, the law was amended to regulate antibiotics, which were made subject to FDA testing beginning with penicillin in 1945, and introduced a resolution to test the safety of chemicals, additives and artificial colors in food in 1949.
In 1962, drug amendments unanimously passed by Congress, tightened control over prescription drugs and new drugs. For the first time the law recognized that no drug was truly safe unless it was also effective, and effectiveness was required to be established prior to marketing -- a milestone advance in medical history.
When FDR signed the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act on June 25, 1938, Americans paid 25 cents a ticket to see Greta Garbo in Camille, they made an annual average of $1731 to buy their brand new $3900 home, and paid Harvard University $420 per year to send their kid to college. A lot has changed in 80 years!
The Personal Care Products Safety Act, introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, would reform this cosmetics law, as reported in Happi.