The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-29
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumers
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, d. c.
There's More Safety Now For Con-
sumers of New Drugs


Gone are the days when drug
manufacturer could rush into the
market with a new drug that had not
been sufficiently tested and for which
he claimed unprovable powers.
When Congress passed the new
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1888,
it clamped it's foot down on that kind
of business, which ended tragically in
1887 in the deaths of over 70 people
from one new drug which had not been
adequately tested.
Under the new Act, nobody can try
to sell new drug in Interstate COM
merce unless he has filed an applica-
ton first with the Secretary of Agri-
culture.
In such an application, he must tell
the Secretary everything that's con-
tanned in the new product; exactly how
he proposes to control the manufac-
ture, processing, and packing of the
drug; what Investigations have been
made to show whether the drug is safe
to use. Also, he must give the Sec
retary samples of the labels he pro-
poses using.
The Secretary must be convinced
that the new drug has been tested
sufficiently to show that it will not in
jure the individual who follows the la
bel directions before he will permit
the application to become effective.
Recently chemical firm made ap-
plication on behalf of an important
new drug. Food and Drug experts
went to work on it Immediately. Be-
fore the drug was allowed to go to
market, they had reviewed more than
1000 cases reported by over 1C0 doc
tors who had tested it.
Protection like this should mean
fewer deaths chalked up against the
scramble for sales.
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Notes For Spring Painters
If Spring brings the urge, get busy
and repaint your house or garage,
then make note of these painting
rules.
Renew the paint surface with the
same type of paint originally used. Ex-
ceptions to this hard and fast rule
should be made only when your own
experience shows that one kind Of
paint goes over another kind satisfac-
torily. Otherwise, you will have
trouble getting the surface to take the
new coat properly.
To make sure that you do not waste
your money, make a note of the for
mulas of the paints you use so that
when you go buying again, you can
duplicate yoyr original purchase.
Experts in the United States Forest
Service who have studied more than
500 cases of unsatisfactory paint SER
vice within the last few years learned
that most paint failures that are
caused by faulty application or main
tenance come from 1) the painters
ignorance of the kind of paint he is
using, (2) the failure to time paint
ing in accordance with the kind of
paint used, and (3) from using diff
ferent kinds of paint for successive
paint jobs.
Careful study of paint formulas on
paint cans, and the keeping of care
full records as to the date Of each
paint job and kind of paint used can
help consumers reduce these failures.
Consumers, however, will find their
problems greatly simplifed when a
simple and practical method of classi-
flying and grading paints is adopted
by paint manufacturers.
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COlOr-Changes in Beef
Beef that turns from a dark red to
very bright red after it is cut does
so because of exposure to air, not be-
cause of any change in quality.
Here is what experts in the Bureau
of Animal Industry of the Depart.
ment of Agriculture say about the
color of beef:
Normally, when beef is cut, it tends
to be rather dark. 1t brightens up or
exposure to air. Beef takes about 81
minutes in the air to take on it's maxi
mum red color. After this first change
in color, meat gradually becomes dark
er as it is stored in the refrigerator.
Aside from these normal changes
in color, occasionally you find what is
called dark cutting beef. Such beel
brightens little or not at all after cut
ting. Research workers. are trying tt
find the cause of this 'dark-cutting
beef.