The Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration is renamed and becomes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The FDA can now regulate therapeutic claims made by manufacturers and determine directions for safe use. The name change also includes policy changes such as extending regulation to medical devices and cosmetics and introducing the requirement of "pre-market approval." As a result, the overall control that the FDA has on a broad range of materials, including those with significant cultural histories of use that predate Western scientific research, is deepened and expanded.