Pennsylvania Food Recall Attorneys

Food and Drug Administration

The FDA was founded in the early 1900s, when President Teddy Roosevelt responded to reports of systemic putrescence in the national food system by volleying for a National Food and Drug Act. What began as a relatively minor bureaucratic instrument has expanded today to be a regulatory powerhouse. On average, the Food and Drug Administration oversees the regulation and standardization of a trillion dollars worth of products and goods. About half of this money comes in the form of food sales. A quarter of the money revolves around pharmaceuticals.

The FDA regulates and occasionally issues food recalls on animal medicine products, cosmeceutical products, medical devices, pharmaceutical drugs available over the counter (i.e. without prescription), certain biotech products, vaccinations, supplements and vitamins, and even bottled water.

The FDA isn't the sole consumer product regulation agency. The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, for instance, regulates our nation's alcohol supplies; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture oversees the regulation of meat products.

Due the FDA's size and the scope of its mandate, the agency is split into several large sub divisions. These sub-bureaus focus on subjects such as:

• veterinary medicine
• food safety
• toxicology
• drug research
• clinical research

The FDA has been a powerful force in informing how Americans eat. An FDA commission assembled by George McGovern in the late 1970s urged Americans to eat a more low fat diet. As a result of these findings, the USDA created a food pyramid that suggested that Americans eat 6 to 12 servings of grains per day and to eat fats and oils sparingly. Many nutritional researchers and dieticians, such as the late Dr. Robert Atkins, have contended that the USDA's pushing of this carb-heavy food pyramid has contributed to the modern obesity epidemic.

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