GOVERNMENTAL INSPECTION 201 



BIOLOGIC SUPERVISION. 



157. Biologic Products. In modern therapeusis 

 and prophylaxis, both for man and beast, various 

 biologic products have become of very gTeat im- 

 portance. The peculiar nature of these substances 

 readily offers itself as a means for working great 

 harm, as well as great good. Through accidental 

 infections they have already caused many deaths 

 of human beings, and have caused the nation tre- 

 mendous financial losses by the introduction and 

 spread of animal diseases. To safeguard the pub- 

 lic as much as possible the federal government 

 has seen fit to exact licenses from all those engaged 

 in the manufacture of such articles designed for 

 interstate traffic, and under the license system 

 to supervise the processes of manufacture. This 

 is in charge of the Public Health Service of the 

 Treasury Department, but the services of veteri- 

 narians is required in the examination of animals 

 used for this pui^pose. The manufacture is con- 

 ducted under the strictest surgical technique, and 

 every operation is safeguarded as much as pos- 

 sible. 



158. Governmental Responsibility. The gov- 

 ernment does not guarantee the purity of the prod- 

 uct. Neither did the label ' ' Guaranteed under the 

 U. S. Pure Food and Drugs Act" mean that the 

 government guaranteed the contents of the pack- 

 age. That label simply meant that under the pro- 

 visions of that act the maker guaranteed the gen- 

 uineness of his product as marked. In point of fact 

 many manufacturers and dealers have been prose- 

 cuted by the government because they attempted 



