PEDIATRICS Vol. 27 No. 3 March 1961, pp. 480-484
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PUBLIC HEALTH

DRUG CONTROL IN THE UNITED STATES

George P. Larrick 1

1 Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of health, Education, and Welfare

IN THE United States, government control of drug manufacture is accomplished largely through application of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. This is a law of broad scope, which deals with such important matters as the purity, potency, safety, labeling and methods of distribution of drugs imported into the country or shipped from one state to another. The Food and Drug Administration administers this law. I shall describe the drug control provisions of the law, discuss briefly the development of some of its more important aspects, and mention some current problems with which we in the Food and Drug Administration are now dealing.

The United States law provides three principal types of control over drugs. These are 1) the certification procedures; 2) the new drug procedures; and 3) the general procedures applicable to drugs that do not fall into the first two groups.