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American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  { 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1910. 
form  of  a  bound  volume.  The  members  of  the  Association  will 
receive  the  monthly  journal  as  issued  and  the  bound  report  at  the 
end  of  the  fiscal  year.  It  is  proposed  that  the  size  of  the  reading 
page  of  the  Journal  shall  be  practically  equal  to  that  of  the  present 
page  of  the  Proceedings  and  Bulletin.  The  publication  of  the 
Journal  will  be  under  the  direction  of  a  Committee  on  Publication 
of  nine  members. 
The  reports  of  a  number  of  special  committees  were  presented, 
including  that  on  Reorganization  by  C.  S.  X.  Hallberg;  and  one 
of  the  A.  M.  A.  on  the  National  Formulary  by  Dr.  Robert  A. 
Hatcher,  etc. 
The  following  is  an  abstract  of  the  lengthy  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  National  and  State  Legislation  which  was  read  by  the 
Chairman,  S.  L.  Hilton : 
The  field  of  legislation  in  which  the  A.  Ph.  A.  may  become  effective 
and  should  be  interested  in,  should  be  referred  to  one  committee  that  has 
been  carefully  selected  and  well  instructed  with  respect  to  the  wishes  of 
the  association  as  to  their  attitude  on  all  questions  pertaining  to  national 
legislation. 
The  original  Coudrey  bill  providing  for  the  editing  and  publishing 
of  the  U.S. P.  should  be  opposed  and  defeated.  The  Coudrey  bill  providing 
that  all  drugs  shall  be  of  the  standard  required  by  the  U.S.P.  and  N.F. 
and  where  no  standards  are  provided  granting  the  power  to  the  Secretary 
of  Agriculture  to  establish  such  standards  should  be  carefully  considered. 
The  latter  proposition  providing  for  the  establishing  of  standards  needs  no 
argument,  providing  that  all  interests  be  carefully  considered,  would  be  an 
advance  in  the  right  direction  and  redound  to  the  good  of  every  one. 
The  first  proposition,  however  should  be  carefully  considered,  under 
the  provisions  of  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act,  any  drug  may  differ  from 
the  standard  if  it  is  clearly  explicitly  stated  on  the  label.  By  the  terms 
of  this  provision  the  field  is  left  open  for  adulteration  and  sophistication 
and  the  object  sought  by  the  Coudrey  bill  is  to  overcome  this  difficulty.  The 
Chairman  stated  that  personally  he  felt  that  this  provision  of  the  Food 
and  Drugs  Act  should  be  amended  so  that  no  deviation  from  the  standards 
should  be  permitted,  provided  the  standards  of  the  U.S.P.  and  N.F.  as 
established  shall  be  fair  and  reasonable  and  that  they  can  be  met  and 
attained  as  an  average  condition  in  the  usual  supply. 
The  present  conditions  with  reference  to  the  use  and  abuse  of  habit- 
forming  drugs  must  carefully  be  considered  and  some  means  devised,  by 
enactment  of  a  National  character,  whereby  the  sale  of  all  narcotic  and 
habit-forming  drugs  in  interstate  commerce  to  others  than  those  licensed 
to  prescribe  and  dispense  shall  be  completely  stopped. 
The  bills  proposing  to  establish  a  Department  of  Public  Health  should 
be  amended  so  as  to  provide  for  a  bureau  of  pharmacy. 
