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USDA
On May 15, 1852, President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation to establish the United States Department of Agriculture and two and a half years later in his final message to Congress, Lincoln called USDA "The People's Department." Through our work on food, agriculture, economic development, science, natural resource -
FDA
The Food and Drug Administration is the oldest comprehensive consumer protection agency in the U. S. federal government. Since 1848 the federal government has used chemical analysis to monitor the safety of agricultural products -- a responsibility inherited by the Department of Agriculture in 1862 and later by the FDA. -
Establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). -
Establishment of the Meat lnspection Act
Summary: The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) was enacted to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
1st Certified Color Regulations Established
In 1907, the USDA issued Food Inspection Decision (F.I.D.) 76, which contained a list of seven straight colors approved for use in food. Subsequent F.I.D.'s in the early part of the century established a voluntary certification program and listed new colors. -
Gould Amendment Established
In 1913, the Gould Amendment, which requires that contents be plainly marked on the outside of the food package, was added to the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act. -
McNary-Mapes Amendment Established
- McNary-Mapes Amendment authorizes FDA standards of quality and fill-of-container for canned food, excluding meat and milk products. The name of the Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration is shortened to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under an agricultural appropriations act.
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Food,Drug,and Cosmetic Act Established
FDR signed the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act on 25 June 1938. The new law brought cosmetics and medical devices under control, and it required that drugs be labeled with adequate directions for safe use. -
Delaney Clause Established
The Delaney Clause, incorporated into the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by the Food Additives Amendment of 1958, requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban food additives which are found to cause or induce cancer in humans or animals as indicated by testing. -
Food Additives Amendment Established
Under the 1958 Food Additives Amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, any substance intentionally added to food is a food additive and is subject to pre-market approval by FDA unless the use of the substance is generally recognized as safe (GRAS; the GRAS provision) (or otherwise excepted from the ...Jan 4, 2018 -
GRAS list published
The FDA first published a list of these generally recognized as safe (GRAS) substances in the Federal Register of December 9, 1958 . This list came to be called the GRAS list -
color additives amendment established
The Color Additive Amendments of 1960 defined "color additive" and required that only color additives (except coal-tar hair dyes) listed as "suitable and safe" for a given use could be used in foods, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices -
Federal Hazardous Substances Labeling Act
The Hazardous Substances Labeling Act was passed in 1960 (the word "Labeling" was deleted by the 1966 amendments the act). The law authorized the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to require warning labels for household substances that were deemed hazardous. -
Fair Packaging and Labeling Act Established
The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA or Act), enacted in 1967, directs the Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration to issue regulations requiring that all "consumer commodities" be labeled to disclose net contents, identity of commodity, and name and place of business of the product's -
Saccharin Study and Labeling Act Established
Saccharin Study and Labeling Act of 1977 or Saccharin Study, Labeling and Advertising Act was a United States federal statute enacting requirements for a scientific observation regarding the impurities in, potential toxicity, and problematic carcinogenicity of a non-nutritive sweetener better known as saccharin. -
Nutrition Labeling and Education Act Established
Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) to deem a food misbranded unless its label bears nutrition information that provides: (1) the serving size or other common household unit of measure customarily used; (2) the number of servings or other units per -
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act Established
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define a "dietary supplement" as a product: (1) other than tobacco, intended to supplement the diet that contains a vitamin, mineral, herb or botanical, dietary substance, or a concentrate, metabolite, constituent, -
FDA Mandated HACCP Regulations for Seafood
The seafood HACCP regulation requires seafood processors to address all seafood safety hazards identified by the hazard analysis in their HACCP plan and to comply with part 117. FDA intends to provide separate guidance regarding control of allergen cross-contact by seafood processors. -
Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act
The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act (FALCPA) is a United States law that requires all food labels in the United States to list ingredients that may cause allergic reactions and was effective as of January 1, 2006 -
New Food Code
The Food Code is a model for safeguarding public health and ensuring food is unadulterated and honestly presented when offered to the consumer. It represents FDA's best advice for a uniform system of provisions that address the safety and protection of food offered at retail and in food service. -
Food Safety Modernization
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is transforming the nation's food safety system by shifting the focus from responding to food borne illness to preventing it.