...I'harmacopocia for internal or external use and any subsi.iince, or mixture, of substances intended tit be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease of either man or ariinnil. Then! has been raised in that connection a question about the meaning of the words "substance...

...for internal or external use, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be u«cd .ror the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease of either man or other anim.<.'=. The term "food," as used herein, shall include all articles used for food, drink, confectionery,...

...preparations recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary for internal or external use, any substance or mixture of substances intended to...prevention of disease of either man or other animals." 34 Stat. 768, 769. As the subsequent congressional action clearly indicates, however, the scope of...

...have been regulated. McCumber, however, added a provision that expanded coverage to "any substance intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease." He did so at the urging of the representatives of a few proprietary medicine firms, who claimed that...

...1938 ACT The 1906 Act had defined a drug to include: ... all medicine and preparations recognized in United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary...prevention of disease of either man or other animals (14). From the time that the legislation that ultimately became the FD&C Act was initially introduced...

...legislation, provided this further explanation: The present law defines drugs as substances or mixtures of substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease. This narrow definition permits escape from legal control of all therapeutic or curative devices like...

...Drug Act of 19065 defined food to include all articles used for food and defined drug to include all substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease. The jurisdiction of the 1 906 Act was limited to the package or label of the article. lt prohibited...

...adulterated or misbranded medicines under the Food and Drugs Act of 1906, it defined "drug" to mean: all medicines and preparations recognized in the United...mitigation, or prevention of disease of either man or other animals.17 Decades later, when Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, it...

...inspection. "The Federal Food and Drug Act," wrote Campbell, "defines the word 'drug' as including 'any substance or mixture of substances intended to...for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease." "42 Sold as disease prophylactics, condoms clearly fell within the FDA's jurisdiction. (Because pregnancy...

...from tobacco-State Congressmen for passage of the law. The 1906 Act also defined a drug as including substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease in man or other animals. In 1914, the chief of the Bureau of Chemistry in the US Department of Agriculture,...