One 20-ounce soda has 15 teaspoons of sugar; Gatorade contains 14 teaspoons of the stuff in one bottle. One can of soda a day increases a kidâs chance of being obese by 60 percent and a womanâs chance of type 2 diabetes by 80 percent.
Not to be confused with Food and Drugs Act. The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the 20th century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.nforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Act was assigned to the Bureau of Chemistry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture which was renamed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1930.
The United States was very slow to recognize the need for a national food and drug law. Frederick Accum's Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Methods of Detecting Them had been published in London and Philadelphia in 1820, and Great Britain's first national food law was passed in 1860.ot until interstate commerce began its great expansion after the Civil War did the need for federal rulemaking become widely realized. The Pure Food Movement -- a grass roots phenomenon that germinated in the 1870's -- was the original and principal source of political support for the Food and Drugs Act of 1906.