Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1912 — Drastic Pure Drugs Bill Passed by House Monday. [ARTICLE]

Drastic Pure Drugs Bill Passed by House Monday.

The bill introduced to congress by Representative Sherley, of Kentucky, democrat, which would make more drastic the pure food and drugs law as applied to patent and proprietary medicines, was passed by the house Monday. The bill would prohibit, under a heavy penalty, the publishing of claims for “cure alls” that cannot be substantiated or which have no foundation in fact. The legislation ia of importance to medicine manufacturers and would give the government a much greater authority over the trade in nostrums.