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Emerging out of the era of the robber barons and Theodore Roosevelts desire to civilize capitalism, the Food and Drug Administration was created to stop the trade in adulterated meats and quack drugs. In the almost one hundred years since, it has evolved from a squad of eleven inspectors dogging dishonest tradesmen into Americas most important regulatory agency, keeping tabs on the products of about 95,000 businesses and more than $1 trillion worth of goods annually. This book shows how the agency combats self-serving political and industrial interests and protects Americans from hazardous medicines, medical devices, and foodstuffs while enforcing rigorous scientific standards. Hilts takes us back to the FDAs beginnings, when it confronted businesses that acknowledged no limitations on what could be brought to market or on the claims they could make for a product. With the coming of the FDA, our government, for the first time, was able to force the removal of toxic elixirs from the shelves and to insist on accurate labeling. We see the subsequent fights the FDA waged, and won, for mandatory testing, and against such conservatives asin our own timeRonald Reagan and Newt Gingrich, wh

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Author

Hilts, Philip J.

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375404665

Category

history

Subjects

Military, Medical, Fiction

Rating

3.83 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14