A Legislative History of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and Its Amendments, Volume 7

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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 33 - An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes...
Page 446 - No objection to the order of the Secretary shall be considered by the court unless such objection shall have been urged before the Secretary or unless there were reasonable grounds for failure so to do.
Page 657 - Nothing in this Act shall be construed as requiring the Secretary to report for prosecution, or for the institution of libel or injunction proceedings, minor violations of this Act whenever he believes that the public interest will be adequately served by a suitable written notice or warning.
Page 648 - ... 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 23 - No objection to the order of the Commission shall be considered by the court unless such objection shall have been urged before the Commission or unless there were reasonable grounds for failure so to do.
Page 444 - ... (f ) if any word, statement, or other information required by or under authority of this Act to appear on the label or labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness (as compared with other words, statements, designs, or graphic matter in, the labeling) and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use...
Page 446 - If any party shall apply to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence, and shall show to the satisfaction of the court that such additional evidence is material and that there were reasonable grounds for failure to adduce such evidence in the proceeding before the Secretary...
Page 22 - If in package form unless it bears a label containing (1) the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distribu-tor; and (2) an accurate statement of the quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count...
Page 686 - 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.
Page 458 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.

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