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Pure Food and Drug Act  

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  • Beginning in the last quarter of the 19th century, support for federal legislation regulating food and drug products accelerated, and some 200 proposals were introduced in Congress. However, lobbies for the patent medicine and whiskey industries managed to prevent their passage. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; Pure Food and Drug Act]

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