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Show Truth Will Come Hard in the "Device" Racket Electric belts, nose straighteners, mechanical bust developers, stretching stret-ching devices, and dozens of other gadgets, knickknacks, and flim I flams will have to be truthfully labeled when the new Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act goes into effect ef-fect next June 25. These "therapeutic "thera-peutic devices" have escaped regulation regu-lation because they are not drugs. Telling the truth is going to come hard for proprietors of some of these old frauds, enforcement officials admit. Amber beads will have to sell as amber beads and (not as a preventive of croup in babies; or as a "cure" for goitre, the only effect being to postpone competent treatment of the serious disease. Under the old law officials watched this section of what W. G. Campbell, Chief of the Food and Drug Administration, calls the "underworld of the food and drug I industries" and stepped in when ; a rug was involved for example in the case of the "iodine socks" (ordinary hosiery scented with iodoform) recommended as "invaluable "in-valuable to sufferers from gout rheumatism, flu, colds, varicose veins, bad legs, corns bunions, and aching feet." Most escaped, however how-ever because no drug was involved, involv-ed, and theTe was no check on "claims" however absurd or dangerous dan-gerous to buyers. Some devices have real merit and makers can label them truthfully truth-fully and sell them wothout re-traint; re-traint; but' many are fakes and worth just their junk value. |