Seizure of Foods and Drugs. Hearings on H.R. 3128 and H.R. 3147

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Side 23 - The purposes of this legislation thus touch phases of the lives and health of people which, in the circumstances of modern industrialism, are largely beyond self-protection.
Side 24 - That any article of food, drug, or liquor that is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this Act, and is being transported from one State, Territory, District, or insular possession to another for sale, or, having been transported, remains unloaded, unsold, or in original unbroken packages...
Side 8 - The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with respect to, a food, drug, device, or cosmetic, if such act is done while such article is held for sale (whether or not the first sale) after shipment in interstate commerce and results in such article being adulterated or misbranded.
Side 37 - Mex., express its firm belief in the soundness of the proposal to amend section 304 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act so as to extend the jurisdiction of the act to products shipped interstate which may become adulterated or...
Side 10 - Limiting the requirements of the act as to adulteration and misbranding simply to the outside wrapping or box containing the packages intended to be purchased by the consumer, so that the importer, by removing and destroying such covering, could prevent the operation of the law on the imported article yet unsold, would render the act nugatory and its provisions wholly inadequate to accomplish the purposes for which it was passed.
Side 24 - interstate commerce" means (1) commerce between any State or Territory and any place outside thereof, and (2) commerce within the District of Columbia or within any other Territory not organized with a legislative body. (c) The term "Department" means the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (d) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. (e) The term "person" includes individual, partnership, corporation, and association.
Side 22 - Any article of food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded when introduced into or while in interstate commerce or while held for sale (whether or not the first sale) after shipment in interstate commerce, or which may not, under the provisions of section 404 or 505, be introduced into interstate commerce, shall be liable to be proceeded against while in interstate commerce...
Side 21 - ... shall be liable to be proceeded against while in interstate commerce, or at any time thereafter, on libel of information and condemned in any district court of the United States within the jurisdiction of which the article is found...
Side 9 - ... unloaded, unsold, or in original unbroken packages." The opportunity for inspection en route may be very inadequate. The real opportunity of Government inspection may only arise when, as in the present case, the goods as packed have been removed from the outside box in which they were shipped and remain, as the act provides, "unsold.
Side 9 - broadest possible sense" the Act's language "may include what happened." However, it was also of the opinion that the Act ought not to be taken so broadly "but held to apply only to the holding for the first sale by the importer after interstate shipment.

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