Compilation of selected acts within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce: prepared for the use of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978

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Page 84 - ... if it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance, or if it is otherwise unfit for food; or (4) if it has been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health...
Page 83 - If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health...
Page 23 - If in package form unless it bears a label containing (1) the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor; and (2) an accurate statement of the quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count...
Page xii - Intended for any such use) , if such substance is not generally recognized, among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate its safety, as having been adequately shown through scientific procedures (or, In the case of a substance used in food prior to January 1, 1958, through either scientific procedures or experience based on common use In food) to be safe under the conditions of Its intended use...
Page xii - ... or (2) Any drug the composition of which is such that such drug, as a result of investigations to determine its safety and effectiveness for use under such conditions, has become so recognized, but which has not. otherwise than in such investigations, been used to a material extent or for a material time under such conditions. (q) The term "pesticide chemical" means any substance which, alone, in chemical combination or in formulation with one or more other substances, is an "economic poison"...
Page 208 - An employee or agent engaged in the performance of investigative or prosecuting functions for an agency in a case may not, in that or a factually related case, participate or advise in the decision, recommended decision, or agency review pursuant to section 557 of this title, except as witness or counsel in public proceedings.
Page xii - 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.
Page 211 - For the purpose of this subchapter — (1) ' agency" means each authority of the Government of the United States, whether or not it is within or subject to review by another agency, but does not include — (A) the Congress; (B) the courts of the United States; (C) the governments of the territories or possessions of the United States...
Page 40 - ... that the drug will have the effect it purports or is represented to have under the conditions of use prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling or proposed labeling thereof.
Page 47 - ... a full list of the articles used as components of such drug; (3) a full statement of the composition of such drug; (4) a full description of the methods used in, and the facilities and controls used for, the manufacture, processing, and packing of such drug...

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