A Legislative History of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and Its Amendments

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U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, 1979 - Cosmetics

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Page 556 - tolerance prescribed by the Federal Security Administrator after public hearing. In prescribing a tolerance the law directs the Administrator to take into account the extent to which the poisonous or deleterious substance is required or cannot be avoided in the production of each food, and the other ways In whIch the consumer may be affected by the
Page 335 - which may cause skin irritation on certain individuals and a preliminary test according to accompanying directions should first be made. ¿ This product must not be used for dyeing the eyelashes or eyebrows. To do so may cause blindness.”.
Page 202 - hair dye, the labeL ¿ of which bears the following legend conspicuously displayed thereon : “CautionThis product contains Ingredients which may cause skin Irritation on certain individuals and a preliminary test according to accompanying directions should
Page 557 - Is not enough. A third provision defines a food as adulterated “if it bears or contains any added poisonous or added deleterIous substance • required In the
Page 792 - for adequate pretesting and adequate manufacturing control of new cosmetics before they are placed on the market. Mr. Chairman, with your permission, I would like to submit a copy of that letter for the record.
Page 571 - WATER SUPPlIES The council on pharmacy and chemistry and the council on foods and nutrition have been requested to state their opinion regarding the safety of fluoridation of water supplies, a procedure which has now been adopted by more than
Page 561 - Is not generally recognized as having been adequately tested to show that it Is not poisonous or deleterious.” The application must be accompanied by a great deal of technical Information. It may be denied for several specific reasons but attentIon is called to the final
Page 563 - article that Is wholesome and has food value and is sold for what it Is, without deception, should be permitted the channels of commerce.”¿ In spite of these positive assertions, within a few years the sale of farina enriched with vitamin D had been outlawed under the very
Page 202 - to do so may cause blindness,” and the labeling of which bears adequate directions for such preliminary testing. If such a coal-tar
Page 559 - drug provision, early drafts of whIch defined a new drug simply as one not generally recognized by qualified experts as safe for use under the conditions set forth in Its labeling. It thus Included drugs then on

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