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Adulterants in Milk and Milk Products

Bureau of Enforcement, Food and Drug Administration, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D. C.

ABSTRACT

The objectives of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act are to ensure a national food supply that is safe and wholesome as well as honestly and informatively labeled. At the time of its passage in 1938 the law stood as a landmark in modern-day food regulation.

In the light of the tremendous technological developments and economic trends over the past 20 yr., it has been necessary to make major amendments in the law to prevent its becoming obsolete. Two such amendments were the Pesticide Amendment of 1954 and the Food Additives Amendment of 1958. Both were in recognition of the spectacular increase in the use of chemicals in our national economy and to ensure that this use is surrounded by sufficient safeguards to protect the public health.

It has been stated that since 1939 sales in the chemical industry have increased fivefold and that today the industry stands fourth in size among all the industries of the country.