Protecting America's Health
Subtitle: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 22, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780807855829
Subjects: Politics / Current Events; Medical; Health Policy; Public Affairs & Administration; Public Health; Medical / Health Policy; Medical-Health Policy; Medical-Public Health; Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration; Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906; pharmaceutical industries; Thalidomide;  public health; quality control; Food adulteration and inspection; Food law and legislation; hazardous medicines; mandatory testing; Government - National
First sentence: IN APRIL 1863, a tall, stringy young fellow named Harvey Washington Wiley, wearing a suit of knobby homespun, strode out of his Indiana farmhouse and set off for college five miles down a dirt road.