Drug Safety Quotes

The disastrous provisions of this bill could wreck the industry of pharmacy.

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Bruce Philip, Counsel for the National Association of Retail Druggists,testimony to the Senate Committee on Commerce
12/07/1933 | Full Details | Law(s): Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938

The enactment of this legislation will mean a complete readjustment, if indeed the business of manufacturing and selling packaged medicines can be continued at all. This is very doubtful.

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Proprietary Association chief H.B. Thompson, Senate Committee on Commerce.
12/07/1933 | Full Details | Law(s): Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938

No manufacturer can possibly continue in business except by the grace of the officials in Washington.

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An unnamed pharmaceutical industry lawyer’s prediction.
332208/01/1933 | Full Details | Law(s): Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938

[Government intervention would mean dealing with] a pestilential lot of spies, meddlers, and informers. The Federal Government was not created for the purpose of cutting your toe nails or corns. I believe there are millions of old women, white and black, who know more about good victuals and good eating than my friend Doctor Wiley and all his apothecary shop.

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Representative William Adamson (D-GA)
02/13/1906 | Full Details | Law(s): Pure Food and Drug Law of 1906

If the Federal Government should regulate Inter-state traffic in drugs on the basis of their therapeutic value, why not regulate traffic in theology, by excluding from transportation, all theological books which Dr. Wiley and his assistants, upon the examination, should find to be misleading in any particular?

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The Proprietary Association 23rd annual report.
01/01/1905 | Full Details | Law(s): Pure Food and Drug Law of 1906

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