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The USDA is a federal executive department responsible for farm policy, food safety, natural resources management, federal nutrition programs, and economic growth.
The USDA helps with ensuring much more food safety and reduce the hunger in people to those with a low income providing a healthy diet, and nutrition education in a way that will help support american agriculture and inspire public confidence. -
Color Regulation Established prohibited the use of poisonous or deleterious colors in confectionery and coloring or staining good to conceal damage or inferiority.
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The federal Meat Inspection Act prevented adulterated meat and meat products from being sold as food and making sure that the meat is processed under sanitary conditions.
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The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food or drugs in interstate commerce and created a foundation for the nation’s first consumer protection agency.
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The Food and Drug Admisnistration (FDA) is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and drugs. It also provides accuracy and science health information to the public. -
The Gould Amendment amended the Pure Food And Drug Act of 1906 by requiring a detail explanation of terms of weight, measure, or numerical count and ingredients marked on the outside of the package.
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McNary-Mapes Amendment authorizes FDA standards of quality and fill off container for canned food, excluding meat and milk products.
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The law established quality standards for food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics manufactured and sold in the United States. The law also provided for federal oversight and enforcement of these standards. -
The Delaney Clause Established requires the FDA to ban food additives that can cause or induce cancer in humans or animals as indicated by testing.
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Food Additives Amendment requires that any substance intentionally added to food is a food additive and is subject to pre-market approval by FDA unless the substance is generally recognized as safe.
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GRAS is part of the FDA that has the role to check that a chemical or substance added to food is considered safe by experts under the conditions of its intended use.
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The Color Additives Amendment required that only color additives (except coal-tar hair dyes) listed as “suitable and safe” for a given use can be used in foods, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices.
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The Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA) requires precautionary labeling on the immediate container of hazardous household products to help consumers safely store and use those products and to give them information about immediate first aid steps to take if an accident happens. -
The Fair Packaging and Labelling Act requires many consumer products to have a label stating: the identity of the product; The name and place of business of manufacturer; packer, or distributor; And the net quantity of contents.
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The Saccharin Study and Labeling Act is when the United States federal statute enact requirements for a scientific observation regarding the impurities in, potential toxicity, and problematic carcinogenicity of a non-nutritive sweetener better known as saccharin. -
Nutrition Labelling and Education act requires products to have a label with all the bears nutrition information that provides: the serving size or other common household unit measure customarily used or the number of servings in the product.
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The DSHEA prohibit dietary supplements manufacturers and distributors from making false claims, such as “natural” and “therapeutic” on supplement labels.
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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.
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This act will improve food labeling information for the millions of consumers who suffer from food allergies. The Act will be especially helpful to children who must learn to recognize the allergens they must avoid. -
The Food Code is a guidance in which represents the FDA'S current thinking and is a model safeguarding public health aswell as ensuring food undultured and presented honestly when it is offered to cosumers. -
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was created or made on the focus to ensure the U.S food supply would be safe by moving its focus to preventing contamination of food supply rather then responding to it.
This laws not only applies to not only human food but, to animal food as well including pets.