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The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act Turns 80!

On June 25, 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed it into a law.

On June 25, 1938, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act into law.   The new law required drug manufacturers to provide scientific proof that new products could be safely used before putting them on the market. The law also regulated cosmetics for the first time. After World War II, the law was amended to regulate antibiotics, which were made subject to FDA testing beginning with penicillin in 1945, and introduced a resolution to test the safety of c...

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