Miscellaneous Publication, Issue 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 |
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accompanying printed matter atomic bad-tasting BLACK PEPPER charlatans Chicken SOUP coal-tar colors common or usual consumer Cosmetic Label COSMIC WAVES cure Disodium Phosphate DISPENSING WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION Drug Administration drug label dye safe eyelashes or eyebrows Federal Food fill of container Food and Drug foods standards fruit preserve Gold Medal Elixir hair dye HEADACHE POWDERS honest manufacturers infrared lamps IODINE U.S.P. label must give labeled in terms Labels or accompanying lamp turned LAW PROHIBITS DISPENSING leave the lamp legitimate devices machines Magnesium Hydroxide margarine medicine Minimum Daily Requirement misbranded misleading Noodles Nutrition quacks official drug optional ingredient package packer Pharmacopoeia physician preserve and jelly protect purchaser read the Drug READ THE LABEL required to tell Roasties Provides samples serious diseases snake oil STANDARD IN QUALITY standard of identity strawberry jam sun lamps TOMATO CATSUP truthfully labeled U. S. DEPARTMENT U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING ultraviolet lamps usual name vitamin and mineral warn
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Page 35 - Caution — This product contains ingredients which may cause skin irritation on certain individuals and a preliminary test according to accompanying directions should first be made. This product must not be used for dyeing the eyelashes or eyebrows ; to do so may cause blindness.", and the labeling of which bears adequate directions for such preliminary testing.
Page 13 - If it purports to be or is represented as a food for which a definition and standard of identity has been prescribed...
Page 31 - US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC, Vol I, 1968 including all subsequent revisions. (9) Mills, PA, "Variation of Florisil Activity: Simple Method for Measuring Adsorbent Capacity and its Use in Standardizing Florisil Columns," Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists, Vol 51, 1968, p.
Page 9 - There is need for additional standards for many now unstandardized foods to promote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of the consumer and to protect honest business.
Page 2 - The final and essential step to achieve the maximum benefit from these activities of industry and Government is for the consumer to make practical use of the information provided on the label.
Page 5 - If the food is made of two or more ingredients they must be listed by their common or usual names.
Page 13 - A definition and standard of identity tells of what ingredients a food is made, and sometimes specifies the proportions.
Page 26 - At the turn of the century the "medicine men" began to throw away their snake oil and to peddle electric belts that "cured" by magnetism. Other gadgets simply gave the gullible a harmless jolt of electricity. As people became more familiar with electricity, and the novelty of being shocked wore off, the device promoters dreamed up more sophisticated machines, some of them claimed to generate "unknown forces.
Page 1 - ... cleanest, most informatively labeled items ever available to the public. Today, producers labeling their goods in conformance with the law are furnishing the consumer the information he needs to be an intelligent purchaser. The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for enforcing the law.
Page 7 - However, in the case of an export shipment, the statement may be in terms of a system of weight or measure in common use in the country to which such shipment is exported. (2) A statement of weight or measure in the terms specified in...