The FDA Is Needed Now More Than Ever

ABSTRACT

The FDA was created in 1906, during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, by the Pure Food and Drug Act to ensure the safety and purity of the American food supply by prohibiting interstate transport of "adulterated" food.1 This resulted from the writing of various contemporary journalists, including Upton Sinclair. Yet, apparently under political pressure, the FDA gave hydroxychloroquine an emergency use authorization, and the US government stockpiled massive quantities of the drug. The history of FDA's fight for consumer protection and public health.