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Also the label had
to be accurate as to the location of the manufacture of the medicine. And
that was all. Keep quiet on the label or do not lie is all the law stated.
This law was not an effort to end self-medication but to make it safer for
the American public. It relied on the knowledge and common sense of the
American public that if warned of potentially dangerous contents they would
not take these medicines. Regrettably the vast majority of the American
public were neither wise enough nor had enough common sense to make this law
effective in protecting the public from the harms of patent medicines, that
simply relabeled and continued selling their bogus products. Though there
would be amendments to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act trying to close
loopholes and major new pure food and drug legislation passed by Congress in
1938 and 1963 the quacks have always run several steps ahead of this type of
legislation and effectively promoted their phony drugs and devises. |