28  Act  of  1848;  Importation  Regulations.  { A m}:J^ ^J™- 
officers  of  the  customs,  to  the  end  that  the  examination  of  drugs  to 
be  admitted  to  entry  shall  be  carried  out  in  compliance  and  in  har- 
mony with  all  the  sections  of  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act  of  June  30, 
1906. 
I  do  not  approve  the  resolutions  offered  before  this  body  at  the 
last  meeting,  October  20,  in  their  entirety. 
Their  adoption  would  lead  to  increased  difficulties  for  the  import- 
ers and  the  entire  drug  trade,  and  bring  in  its  train  unsurmountable 
obstacles  to  the  obtaining  of  adequate  supplies  of  drugs  of  good 
quality,  many  of  which,  in  their  crude  state,  do  not  meet  the  require- 
ments of  the  Pharmacopoeias  of  the  United  States  and  other 
countries. 
I  propose  that  these  resolutions  be  amended  as  follows : 
The  law  of  Tune  26,  1848.  shall  be  repealed,  thus  permitting  the 
Food  and  Drugs  Act  of  June  30,  1906.  to  cover  importation  of  drugs 
the  same  as  for  interstate  commerce. 
If  these  resolutions  as  offered  embody  the  wish  of  the  majority  of 
the  drug  trade,  what  is  the  object  of  abolishing  the  Act  of  1848, 
which  makes  the  U.  S.  P.  the  standard  authority,  along  with  the 
German,  French  and  other  Pharmacopoeias  as  well  ?  If  this  law  were 
strictly  carried  out  it  would  put  the  drug  trade  and  chemical  trade 
in  the  United  States  at  a  tremendous  disadvantage  as  compared 
with  these  trades  in  other  civilized  countries.  It  would  make  it 
impossible  to  import  into  the  United  States  any  drugs  falling  below 
the  standard  requirements  of  quality  and  strength  of  the  U.  S.  P. 
and  the  Pharmacopoeias  of  other  civilized  countries.  It  would 
effectively  shut  out  for  quinine  making,  cinchona  bark  which  ialls 
below  the  requirements  of  the  U.  S.  P.,  and  our  quinine  manufac- 
turers would  hardly  be  able  to  use  the  high  priced,  so-called  drug- 
gists' bark  which  alone  meets  U.  S.  P.  requirements,  for  the  extrac- 
tion of  the  alkaloid  and  still  be  in  position  to  compete  with  their 
foreign  rivals. 
It  would  keep  out  all  drugs  which  in  their  crude  state  do  not 
comply  with  the  severe  requirements  of  the  U.  S.  P. ;  it  would  keep 
out  all  basic  crude  chemical  material,  such  as  crude  phosphoric  acid, 
crude  stearic  acid,  crude  tannic  acid,  crude  wool  fat,  crude  glycerin, 
crude  camphor.  All  these  do  not  meet  Pharmacopceial  requirements, 
and  yet  manufacturers  can  use  all  these  goods  to  advantage  for  the 
purpose  of  making  from  them  the  refined  products  which  meet  the 
requirements  of  the  U.  S.  P. ;  it  would  keep  out  many  alkaloidal 
