Sunday, October 31, 2021, Halloween.
1906, The FDA was created in 1906 as part of the passage of the Federal Pure Food and Drugs Act, passed only 5 months after Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, was published. Here are the brief and chimerical origins of the FDA.
Beginning as the Division of Chemistry and then (after July 1901) the Bureau of Chemistry, the modern era of the FDA dates to 1906 with the passage of the Federal Food and Drugs Act; this added regulatory functions to the agency's scientific mission. The Bureau of Chemistry's name changed to the Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration in July 1927, when the non-regulatory research functions of the bureau were transferred elsewhere in the department. In July 1930 the name was shortened to the present version. FDA remained under the Department of Agriculture until June 1940, when the agency was moved to the new Federal Security Agency. In April 1953 the agency again was transferred, to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). Fifteen years later FDA became part of the Public Health Service within HEW, and in May 1980 the education function was removed from HEW to create the Department of Health and Human Services, FDA's current home. To understand the development of this agency is to understand the laws it regulates, how the FDA has administered these laws, how the courts have interpreted the legislation, and how major events have driven all three.
This is a decent commentary on the 1906 Act,
It would not stretch matters to say that the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (P.L. 59-384, 34 Stat. 768), also known as the Wiley Act, stands as the most consequential regulatory statute in the history of the United States. The act not only gave unprecedented new regulatory powers to the federal government, it also empowered a bureau that evolved into today's Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The legacy of the 1906 act includes federal regulatory authority over one-quarter of gross domestic product and includes market gatekeeping power over human and animal drugs, foods and preservatives, medical devices, biologics, and vaccines. Other statutes (such as the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, the Sherman and Clayton antitrust laws, and the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) have received more study, but the Pure Food and Drug Act has had the longest-lasting and most widespread economic, political, and institutional impact.
Two subsequent laws, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 and the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendments, strengthened the 1906 act's legacy of empowering the FDA. Today the FDA regulates one-quarter of gross domestic product, and not a week goes by without an FDA action making news headlines.
This was interesting regarding Thiele pal, Balaji S. Srinivasan,
Well, he’s a computer scientist, investor, entrepreneur, and lecturer at Stanford. He helped found Counsyl, an award winning affording gene-testing company. He’s big into Bitcoin and secession.
He also wants to get the FDA out of the way.
Some of his recently deleted tweets contained gems that should excite any libertarian.
For example, he has called the organization an “enormous drag on innovation” which “drive up healthcare costs significantly” and represents ” bureaucracy at its finest.” Along with retweeting the message that the “FDA needs an Edward Snowden.”
1938, Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Part of FDR's New Deal.
Two subsequent laws, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 and the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendments, strengthened the 1906 act's legacy of empowering the FDA. Today the FDA regulates one-quarter of gross domestic product, and not a week goes by without an FDA action making news headlines.
1962, Kefauver-Harris Amendments, strengthened the 1906 act's legacy of empowering the FDA, "inspired by the thalidomide tragedy in Europe (and the FDA's vigilance that prevented the drug's marketing in the United States)."
"Dr. Sherri Tenpenny: FDA Has Broken the Law At Least Twice Concerning COVID Injections,” Tim Brown, Sons of Liberty, March 1, 2021.
Tenpenny says that if you do get a COVID-19 vaccine, that you should be taking Sodium Ascorbate, not Ascorbic Acid. This is the product that she's referring to. You can buy whatever brand you'd prefer online. She says that the best we can do is to get your D level up to 80, your iodine level up to 80, vitamin C Ascorbate to bowel tolerance, and take large doses of Co-enzyme Q10, which should be in a gel cap not in a powder.
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