Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (misbranded Food)

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - 72 páginas
Considers legislation to prohibit the sale of substandard imitation food products.
 

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Página 13 - If it is an imitation of another food, unless its label bears, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word "imitation" and, immediately thereafter, the name of the food imitated.
Página 61 - If it purports to be or is represented as a food for which a definition and standard of identity has been prescribed...
Página 3 - filled milk" means any milk, cream, or skimmed milk, whether or not condensed, evaporated, concentrated, powdered, dried, or desiccated, to which has been added, or which has been blended or compounded with, any fat or oil other than milk fat, so that the resulting product is in imitation or semblance of milk, cream, or skimmed milk, whether or not condensed, evaporated, concentrated, powdered, dried, or desiccated.
Página 6 - I. If it is not subject to the provisions of Paragraph G of this section unless its label bears (1) the common or usual name of the food, if any there be, and (2) in case it is fabricated from two or more ingredients, the common or usual name of each such ingredient...
Página 2 - A food shall be deemed to be misbranded (a) If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular. (b) If it is offered for sale under the name of another food. (c) If it is an imitation of another food for which a definition and standard of identity has been prescribed by regulations as provided by section...
Página 45 - In prescribing a definition and standard of identity for any food or class of food in which optional ingredients are permitted, the Secretary shall, for the purpose of promoting honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers, designate the optional ingredients which shall be named on the label.
Página 2 - Whenever in the judgment of the Secretary such action will promote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers, he shall promulgate regulations fixing and establishing for any food, under its common or usual name so far as practicable, a reasonable definition and standard of identity, a reasonable standard of quality, and/or reasonable standards of fill of container...
Página 3 - Milnut," a compound of condensed skimmed milk and coconut oil made in imitation or semblance of condensed milk or cream. The indictment states, in the words of the statute, that Milnut "is an adulterated article of food, injurious to the public health," and that it is not a prepared food product of the type excepted from the prohibition of the Act. The trial court sustained a demurrer to the indictment on the authority of an earlier case in the same court, United States v. Carolene Products Co.,...
Página 45 - August 23 meeting of the division of food, drug and cosmetic law, section of corporation, banking and business law...
Página 3 - But it was found that such a prohibition was inadequate to protect the consumer from "economic adulteration", by which less expensive ingredients were substituted, or the proportion of more expensive ingredients diminished, so as to make the product, although not in itself deleterious, inferior to that which the consumer expected to receive when purchasing a product with the name under which it was sold.

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