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To prevent the adulteration, misbranding, and
false advertising of food, drugs, and cos-
metics, in interstate and foreign and other
subject commerce, for the purposes of safe-
guarding the public health, preventing de-
ceit upon the purchasing public, and pro-
moting fair competition, with respect of
commerce in such products.

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE

A bill (S. 535) for the relief of William Cornwell and others; and

A bill (S. 536) for the relief of Ada Mary Tornau; to the Committee on Claims.

By Mr. BYRNES:

A bill (S. 537) for the relief of C. O. Meyer; and

A bill (S. 538) for the relief of H. Kaminski & Co., Kaminski Hardware Co., and the Carolina Hardware Co.; to the Committee on Claims.

By Mr. STEIWER:

A bill (S. 539) for the relief of Charles Y. Wilson; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

A bill (S. 540) for the relief of Fred Luscher; to the Committee on Claims.

By Mr. CAPPER:

A bill (S. 541) to prohibit the transportation in interstate commerce of advertisements of intoxicating liquors, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. A bill (S. 542) to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921; to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. By Mr. MURRAY:

A bill (S. 543) to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon common carriers engaged in interstate commerce by railroad by compelling such carriers to maintain tracks, bridges, and appurtenances thereto in safe and suitable condition; to the Committee on Interstate Commerce. By Mr. THOMAS of Oklahoma:

A bill (S. 544) for the relief of Charles Edwin Doyle (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Naval Affairs. By Mr. SHEPPARD:

A bill (S. 545) to prohibit the making of photographs, sketches, or maps of vital military and naval defensive installations and equipment, and for other purposes;

A bill (S. 546) for the relief of Miles Thomas Barrett (with accompanying papers); and

A bill (S. 547) for the relief of Alfred W. Kliefoth (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Military Affairs.

A bill (S. 548) for the relief of H. L. Roberts & Co.; A bill (S. 549) for the relief of Augusta Burkett, widow of Alexander Burkett (with accompanying papers);

A bill (S. 550) for the relief of Lota Tidwell, the widow of Chambliss L. Tidwell (with accompanying papers);

A bill (S. 551) to authorize the settlement of individual claims of military personnel for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army (with accompanying papers);

A bill (S. 552) to authorize the settlement of individual claims of military personnel for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army (with accompanying papers);

A bill (S. 553) to authorize the settlement of individual | claims for personal property lost or damaged, arising out of the activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which have been approved by the Secretary of War (with accompanying papers);

A bill (S. 554) to authorize the settlement of individual claims of military personnel for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army (with accompanying papers);

A bill (S. 555) for the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Army of the United States and for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department (with accompanying papers);

A bill (S. 556) for the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Army of the United States and for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department (with accompanying papers);

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A bill (S. 557) for the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Army of the United States and for the settlement of individual claims approved by the War Department (with accompanying papers);

A bill (S. 558) for the relief of certain disbursing officers of the Army of the United States and for the settlement of an individual claim approved by the War Department (with accompanying papers);

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A bill (S. 559) to authorize the settlement, allowance, and payment of certain claims (with accompanying papers); A bill (S. 560) for the relief of the Western Electric Co., Inc. (with accompanying papers);

A bill (S. 561) to reimburse officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army and their families and dependents, or their legal representatives, for losses sustained as a result of the hurricane which occurred in Texas on August 16, 17, and 18, 1915 (with accompanying papers); and

A bill (S. 562) to authorize credit in disbursing officers' accounts covering shipment of privately owned automobiles from October 12, 1927, to October 10, 1929 (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Claims. By Mr. COPELAND:

A bill (S. 563) for the relief of the Jay Street Terminal, New York (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Claims.

By Mr. LOGAN:

A bill (S. 564) extending the classified executive civil service of the United States; to the Committee on Civil Service. By Mr. NEELY:

A bill (S. 555) for the relief of James L. Barnett; to the Committee on Civil Service.

A bill (S. 566) for the relief of George Yusko; and A bill (S. 567) for the relief of Sarah Lloyd; to the Committee on Military Affairs.

A bill (S. 568) granting a pension to George W. Criss: A bill (S. 5C9) granting an increase of pension to William C. Milliner; and

A bill (S. 570) granting a pension to Frederick L. Kniceley; to the Committee on Pensions. By Mr. RUSSELL:

A bill (S. 571) to exempt a limited quantity of cotton produced by small producers from the cotton-ginning tax; to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.

By Mr. BORAH:

A bill (S. 572) to repeal a part of section 5 of the National Recovery Act; to the Committee on Finance.

A bill (S. 573) to amend paragraph (8) of section 1 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended; to the Committee on Interstate Commerce.

A bill (S. 574) relative to Members of Congress acting as attorneys in matters where the United States has an interest; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

A bill (S. 575) to amend the Mining Act of May 10, 1872, as amended; to the Committee on Mines and Mining. A bill (S. 576) granting a pension to Genoa Stewart (with accompanying papers); to the Committee on Pensions.

A bill (S. 577) to provide for the acquisition of a site and the erection thereon of a Federal building at Wallace, Idaho; to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. A bill (S. 578) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to permit citizens of Bear Lake County, Idaho, to obtain timber from Lincoln County, Wyo., for domestic purposes; to the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys.

(Mr. BORAH introduced Senate bill 579, which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and appears under a separate heading.)

By Mr. McCARRAN:

A bill (S. 580) to prevent the adulteration, misbranding, and false advertising of food, drugs, and cosmetics, in interstate and foreign and other subject commerce, for the purposes of safeguarding the public health, preventing deceit upon the purchasing public, and promoting fair competition, with respect of commerce in such products; to the Committee on Commerce.

By Mr. HALE:

A bill (S. 581) for the relief of Harold E. Seavey; to the Committee on Claims.

A bill (S. 582) granting a pension to Charles W. Locke (with accompanying papers);

A bill (S. 583) granting an increase of pension to Mary G. Walsh;

A bill (8. 584) granting an increase of pension to Margaret Thompson;

74TH CONGRESS 18T SESSION

H. R. 3972

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 16, 1935

Mr. MEAD introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and ordered to be printed

A BILL

To revise and amend the Food and Drugs Act of June 30, 1906, as amended August 23, 1912, March 3, 1913, March 4, 1913, July 24, 1919, January 18, 1927, July 8, 1930, and June 22, 1934, to prevent the manufacture, shipment, and sale of adulterated or misbranded food, drugs, and cosmetics; to prevent the false advertising of food, drugs, and cosmetics; and to regulate traffic therein.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act for preventing the manu

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or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and

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1 purposes", approved June 30, 1906, as amended, is hereby 2 amended in title to read "An Act to prevent the manufacture, 3 shipment, and sale of adulterated or misbranded food, drugs,

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and cosmetics; to prevent the false advertising of food, drugs,

and cosmetics; and to regulate traffic therein "; and in the

several sections thereof to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Federal

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SECTION 2. As used in this Act, unless the context

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“(a) The term 'food' includes (1) all articles used for food, drink, or condiment by man or other animals; and (2) all articles used for confection or chewing gum by man; and (3) any substance or preparation intended for use as an ingredient in the composition of any such article.

"(b) The term 'drug' includes (1) all substances and preparations recognized in the United States Pharma19 copoeia, National Formulary, or any supplement thereto 20 official at the time of investigation, and intended for use as or in medicine for man or other animals; (2) all sub22 stances and preparations intended to be used for the cure, 23 mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease of either man or other animals; (3) all substances and preparations, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function

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to affect the structure or function of the body of either man or other animals.

"(c) The term 'cosmetic' includes all substances and

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"(d) The term 'label' means the principal label or labels (1) upon the immediate container of any food, drug, or cosmetic; and (2) upon the outside container or wrapper, if any there be, of the retail package of any food, drug, or cosmetic.

"(e) The term 'labeling' includes all labels and other 15 written, printed, and graphic matter, in any form whatso

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ever, accompanying any food, drug, or cosmetic.

"(f) The term 'advertisement' includes all advertisements and all representations of fact or opinion therein or 19 commercially disseminated in any manner or by any means 20 other than by the labeling.

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territory not organized with a legislative body.

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