Food And Drug Administration

Institutional Powers have always affected my life in many ways. The main institutional power that control both positive and negative consequences of my life would be the FDA the Food and Drug Administration. The first way they control my life is they regulate all human and veterinary drugs in our country. Second, the FDA is responsible for protecting the public health and products. Lastly, they supply and control the entire United States Food supply. I believe that this specific governmental institutional power is 100% the authority over my life. The FDA needs to care more about the general health of the public and take into consideration how they play a major factor in the health of our bodies, minds, and environment as well.

The FDA has a very serious job with food and medication.They are responsible for most of the things that have to do with food and drugs.They require certain things for a food or drug to be allowed to be sold.They have to make sure that every single medication or food is in very safe and good conditions.If it wasn't for the FDA the country would have very unsafe medications and foods,specially medications many people would use drugs and other medications without knowing if they are effective or if they just hurt people more.The FDA has a time limit,during this time they have to check every medication and food to make sure they are in very safe conditions for the people and to do this they get help from scientist who run test on drugs and foods to verify there is no toxic or illegal drugs in

Meat is being produced under unsafe terms in factories, instead of on farms. The FDA has not given the people of the nation a safe place to eat, for them or their kids. E. coli has been the one major virus infecting many kids, and adults throughout the nation. The book,”The Jungle” was written in 1906 by Upton Sinclair was the first real eye opener to the industry. It began to become a nice job for the middle income man, it was a safe, clean place, with a good wage. But what happened to that, the feeling that our food comes from a safe place? The FDA is too loose on its regulations, they should not allow for growth hormones to be

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is best known for its role on protecting the health of the public by making sure that food, medications are safe and effective. Especially when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry, its mission is to regulate pharmaceutical manufacturers, as well as the drug approval process. However, in the recent years, many arguments and controversy regarding drug development and regulation have risen. Drug advertisements make false and misleading claims, products are being put out on the market without any proof of safety, causing many unwanted incidents such as the Avandia incident and Vioxx incident, which could have been prevented in the first place.

The Food and Drug Administration, also known as the FDA or USFDA, is responsible for protecting and advocating public health. They are the official government agency that ensures our drug supply is safe and effective. This is achieved through the regulation and supervision of food safety, dietary supplements, veterinary products, cosmetics, vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, prescription and pharmaceutical drugs that can be purchased over- the- counter.

The purpose of the Pure Food and Drug Act was to protect the public against contamination of food and from products identified as healthful without scientific support. The muckrakers had successfully heightened public awareness of safety issues develop from careless food preparation procedures and the increasing number of drug addiction from patent medicines, both accidental and conscious. President Theodore Roosevelt began the process by ensuring the passage of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906, which was followed by the Pure Food and Drug Act, passed in 1906 to become effective at the start of 1907. (Us

Schlosser describes the environment of the meat packing plants serving fast food companies in a startling straightforward narrative of his visit through a meat packing plant. He describes a brutal, and sometimes unsanitary environment. The rights of animals are a very broad and complex subject, but Schlosser touches on this as he describes the slaughterhouse floor. He describes animals in various states of disembowelment. Sometimes the animals were dead or stunned; sometimes they were thrashing about wildly in the last throws of death. The slaughter room floor was described as being covered with blood and feces. Employees worked at a furious pace to meet the day's quota. What bothered me most was the fact that this meat is not only prepared for fast food companies but also contracted out to serve our children's schools.

This endeavor lead to the creation of the FDA and also the requirement that companies list what is going in the food that they are purchasing. Document B states the ill conditions meat was placed in prior to the chopping of the meat: “Meat scraps were also found being shoveled into receptacles from dirty floors where they were left to lie until again shoveled into barrels or into machines for chopping. These floors, it must be noted, were in most cases damp and soggy, in dark ill-ventilated rooms…”(Neill-Reynolds Report,

Before the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act, meat processing plants and slaughterhouses were very unsanitary and dangerous places to work. There had been previous meat inspection acts, such as the Meat Inspection Act of 1890, but they were largely ineffective as they did not successfully regulate the industry (Rouse). Therefore, even if a person

Food and drug administration is a department of U.S health and human services. It’s responsibility is to test the safety and efficacy of new drugs entering the market as well as to make sure that these medicines are quickly accessible to people. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act has been passed in 1938 to ensure that foods other than meat, poultry and fish are clinically hygienic and safe to eat. This act also requires that the food should be labelled according to its content. (FDA.org) Drugs and tobacco are also regulated by FDA and in 1996, FDA strictly regulated the use of tobacco products like nicotine, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, by children and adolescents because of the increase in diseases prevalence and tobacco addiction. Annually 40000 deaths are attributable to its use and most of them are of premature. Therefore the goal of FDA is to stop the tobacco addiction by minors and prevent the deaths and diseases due to nicotine addiction. (FDA vs Brown, n.d) This essay will cover the food and drug administration’s role in under and over regulating drugs and medicines and how it effects our economy, health care system and patients health and safety.

The Food and Drugs Act of 1906: This worthless, mislabeled and dangerous drugs led to 1st drug laws with an accurate labeling law added in 1912

It is almost like they treat the employees just as bad as they treat the animals. And this is shown in array of ways such as long strenuous work hours, horrible benefits, and racism towards employees. Even though slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants are filled with high tech machinery, manual labor is still heavy required. “Unlike the workers on the kill floor, the ones here were packed closely together, practically elbow to elbow, as they engaged in their repetitive motions.” Workers are usually trained for one specific job in the plant. An example is some workers only kill the animals while other cut and separate. Having to repeat the same process over and over again can cause several health issues and is really hard. Not to mention having to work long hours and repetitive motions. “The first time I worked with a knife, my hands hurt so much at night they kept me awake. I couldn’t put them under a pillow, only on top.” The workers tend to get injuries their hands, wrists and arms. This shows how there needs to be a change in the way they run the plants. No person in today’s society should have to be working assembly-line jobs. It just is not

The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was an attempt to regulate the meatpacking industry and to assure consumers that the meat they were eating was safe. In brief, this act made compulsory the careful inspection of meat before its consummation, established sanitary standards for slaughterhouses and processing plants, and required continuous U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection of meat processing and packaging. Yet, the most important objectives set by the law are the prevention of adulterated or misbranded livestock and products from being commercialized and sold as food, and the making sure that meat and all its products are processed and prepared in the adequate sanitary and hygienic conditions (Reeves 35). Imported meat and its various

The dependence on meat and meat products in the United States is at an all-time high. Despite the great need for healthy and ethical meat, the procedures in meatpacking facilities have not been improved much in the past century. In Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser outlines some of the most important facts and realities facing slaughterhouse workers today. The problems with the food can be fixed with chemicals and the like, but the value of human life cannot be improved without the influence of government actions. There are still such injustices to the workers as sexual harassment, injuries that go unnoticed, and horrific treatment of sanitation workers.

Conditions at America’s meatpacking plants have become more dangerous in part due to the federal government lack of enforcing health and safety laws. During the