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Page 23 - If it purports to be or is represented as a food for which a definition and standard of identity has been prescribed...
Page 8 - The nutritional statements made in this advertisement have been reviewed by the Council on Foods and Nutrition of the American Medical Association and found consistent with current authoritative medical opinion.
Page 61 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Vnited States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the Bank Holding Company Act of 1947.
Page 3 - The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after the date of enactment of this Act...
Page 14 - In order to extend the protection of consumers contemplated by the law to the full extent constitutionally possible, paragraph (k) has been inserted prohibiting the changing of labels so as to misbrand articles held for sale after interstate shipment.
Page 16 - ... of its citizens. The one law would rest upon the same fallacy as the other, and the reasons for opposing and contesting it would be the same in each case. And while it may be entirely possible that in any particular instance the interference would be beneficial to the person or the community whose rights are invaded, it is not to be overlooked that an interference to compel a person to submit to something for his own good may be made use of as a precedent to compel him at some future time to...
Page 34 - To regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
Page 15 - We are dealing, it must be remembered, with illicit articles — articles which the law seeks to keep out of commerce, because they are debased by adulteration, and which law punishes them (if we may so express ourselves) and the shipper of them.
Page 34 - ... be used in such manufacture properly may be taken into account in deciding whether the prohibition of shoddy is a reasonable and valid regulation or is arbitrary and violative of the due process clause. Shoddy-filled comfortables made by appellee are useful articles for which there is much demand; and it is a matter of public concern that the production and sale of things necessary or convenient for use should not be forbidden.
Page 14 - This bill has been prepared with three basic principles in mind: First, it must not weaken the existing laws; second, it must strengthen and extend that law's protection of the consumer, and third, it must impose on honest industrial enterprise no hardship which is unnecessary or unjustified in the public interest.

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