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5 Food Drug Cosm. L.J. 279 (1950)
The Oleomargarine Amendment

handle is hein.journals/foodlj5 and id is 301 raw text is: FOOD une, 1950 O RUG Vol. 5, No. 4 COSMETIC LAW JOURNAL The Oleomargarine Amendment BY THOMAS W. CHRISTOPHER THE AMENDMENT GIVES AUTHORITY OVER ALL COLORED OLEO TO THE FDA. HERE IS A DISCUSSION OF THE CONSTI-. TUTIONALITY OF THE INTRASTATE COMMERCE PROVISION ERETOFORE, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act' applied only to products which at one time or another were in interstate commerce. Colored oleomargarine is now an exception. The new Oleomargarine Act,2 signed by P-resident Truman on March 16, 1950, repeals Federal taxes on oleomargarine, and sets out certain regulations for the product. These regulations are made a part, by amendment, of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The act 3 also provides that: Colored oleomargarine. which is sold in the same state . . . in which it is produced shall be subject in the same manner and to the same extent to the provisions of this Act as if it had been introduced in interstate commerce.' 52 Stat. 1040 (1938), as amended, 21 'The word Act when used herein with- U. S. C. 301 (1946). Hereinafter cited in out identification refers to the Oleomar- notes, and sometimes in text as Food and garine Act herein discussed. Drug Act. I This section becomes Section 407 (a) 2 Public Law No. 459. Eighty-first Con- of the Food and Drug Act. gress, Second Session, March'16, 1950. Oleomargarine Amendment Page 279

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