Federal Food and Drug Act of 1906 Timothy J. Ash Mount Vernon Nazarene University BBA008MF Principles of Marketing November 4, 2008 History of the Food and Drug Administration The drug portion of the FDA was necessary to ensure that the drugs and medicinal components being shipped in from other countries were to the standards of the American Medical Association. There were no controls over the substances being imported for medical use to ensure the purity and “freshness”. As a result, “US soldiers in the occupation of Mexico suffered from inadequate medication for malaria” (Janssen 1981). Although there is no longer an association of the FDA and the American Medical Association, the work they began lead to sweeping changes in the furtherance of US medicine. About this same time the great traveling medicine men were traveling the country selling their cure all elixirs. Many of these magical potions contained cocaine, heroin and opium. Because there were no regulations......

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