FDA's Continuing Failure to Regulate Health Claims for Foods: Hearings Before the Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, October 31 and November 9, 1989, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 524 pages Abstract: These hearings examine the federal government's failure to protect consumers from false and misleading health claims on food labels. A 1987 Food and Drug Administration proposal permitted explicit disease-prevention claims on food labels. This proposal has seriously weakened. FDA's abililty to challenge even what the agency believes are deceptive claims. Testimony is received from Office Management and Budget officials, FDA officials, two state attorney generals, and a representative of the center for Science in the Public Interest. |
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Page 347 - ... because of its toxicity or other potentiality for harmful effect, or the method of its use, or the collateral measures necessary to its use...
Page 251 - Federal agency in implementation of these regulations (§ 1507.3) and for which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.
Page 390 - ... (B) the cumulative effect of such additive in the diet of man or animals, taking into account any chemically or pharmacologically related substance or substances in such diet; and (C) safety factors which in the opinion of experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the safety of food additives are generally recognized as appropriate for the use of animal experimentation data.
Page 89 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JUNE 4, 1992 FOR RELEASE ONLY UPON DELIVERY Good Morning Mr.
Page 219 - labeling" means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter (1) upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers, or (2) accompanying such article.
Page 417 - food" as including "articles used for food and drink...." while defining "drug" as encompassing "...articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of diseases.
Page 390 - ... generally recognized, among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate its safety, as having been adequately shown through scientific procedures (or, in the case of a substance used in food prior to January 1, 1958, through either scientific procedures or experience based on common use in food) to be safe under the conditions of its intended use...
Page 54 - Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c). A dispute about a material fact is genuine ' 'if the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the non-moving party.
Page 289 - Commissioner Food and Drug Administration 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, Maryland 20857 Dear Dr. Young: I am writing in reference to the subconmittee' s ongoing review of FDA's regulation of the marketing of unapproved new drugs. On May 14, 1984, I requested that FDA identify all "new drugs...
Page 438 - even more impressive than that for tobacco and health" (at the time of the Surgeon General's 1964 landmark report on smoking), his new report concludes that: For the two out of three adult Americans who do not smoke and do not drink excessively, one personal choice seems to influence long-term health prospects more than any other: what we eat.