About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

43 Food Drug Cosm. L.J. 779 (1988)
The Animal Drug Amendments of 1968: A Twenty Year Retrospective - Introductory Remarks

handle is hein.journals/foodlj43 and id is 827 raw text is: The Animal Drug Amendments of 1968: A Twenty Year Retrospective-Introductory Remarks GERALD B. GUEST, D.V.M.* The Center for Veterinary Medicine of the Food and Drug Adminis- tration is responsible for the enforcement of the animal drugs and feeds portions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.' As U.S. citizens, we are fortunate. The drugs which we give to our pets, and those given to our food-producing animals and recreational animals, are the most thor- oughly tested and evaluated in the world. By virtue of this, they are safe for the animal receiving the drug and, more important, the food from these animals is safe for man. The responsibility for protecting the public and ensuring the unparal- leled level of consumer confidence in the food supply is shared with the United States Department of Agriculture. The notion that food of animal origin should be safe for human consumption had its beginning in the United States as early as 1784, when Massachusetts enacted the general food law.' Of course, the first Federal Food and Drug Act was signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 The Food and Drug Ad- ministration employed its first veterinarian, Dr. Henry Moskey, in 1927. Following the enactment of the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act4 and the 1951 Durham-Humphrey Amendment,6 animal drugs and feeds were regulated under several sections of the law. The Animal Drug Amendments' subsequently became law in 1968; this series of articles is being published to commemorate that important event in our history. A number of additional pieces of legislation outside of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which impact the regulation of animal drug products, have become law since 1968.' In addition, the advent of products derived from innovations in biotechnology have by now, and will in the future, change the character of animal health products. We have a number of very well-qualified authors in this series who * Dr. Guest is Director, Center for Veterinary Medicine, Food and Drug Administration. A previ- ous version of this paper was presented at The Food and Drug Law Institute's seminar The Animal Drug Amendments of 1968: A Twenty Year Retrospective, Washington, D.C. (Sept. 16, 1988). 1. 21 U.S.C. §§ 321(w), 360(b) (1982). 2. 2 MASSACHUSETTS (COLONY) LAWS (1894). 3. Pure Food and Drugs Act, Pub. L. No. 59-384, 34 Stat. 768 (1906). 4. Pub. L. No. 75-717, 52 Stat. 1040 (1938), as amended 21 U.S.C. §§ 301-392. 5. Pub. L. No. 82-215, 65 Stat. 648 (1951)(codified at 21 U.S.C. § 353(b)). 6. Pub. L. No. 90-399, 82 Stat. 342 (1968)(codified at 21 U.S.C. § 360b). 7. See, e.g., Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 136-136(y) (1982).

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most