Gould Amendment

{{Infobox U.S. legislation | name= Gould Amendment | fullname= A bill to amend section 8 of an act for preventing the manufacture sale or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods drugs medicines and liquors and for regulating traffic therein and for other purposes. | acronym= | enacted by= 62nd | effective date= March 3, 1913 | public law url= | cite public law= {{USPL|62|419}} | cite statutes at large= {{usstat|37|732}}, Chapter 3915 | acts amended= Pure Food and Drug Act | acts repealed= {{unbulleted list|Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)|37 U.S. Stat. 416 (1912) (Sherley Amendment)|37 U.S. Stat. 732 (1913) (Gould Amendment)|41 U.S. Stat. 271 (1919) (Kenyon Amendment)|42 U.S. Stat. 1500 (1923)|44 U.S. Stat. 976-1003 (1927)|46 U.S. Stat. 1019 (1930) (McNary-Mapes Amendment)|48 U.S. Stat. 1204 (1934) (21 U.S.C. §§ 1-15)}} | title amended= | sections created= | sections amended= Section 8 | leghisturl= | introducedin= House | introducedbill= {{USBill|62|H.R.|22526}} | introducedby= Samuel W. Gould (D–ME) | introduceddate= March 28, 1912 | committees= Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce | passedbody1= House | passeddate1= August 5, 1912 | passedvote1= passed | passedbody2= Senate | passeddate2= August 5, 1912 | passedvote2= amended and passed | conferencedate= February 28, 1913 | passedbody3= Senate | passeddate3= February 28, 1913 | passedvote3= [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/62-3/s380 28-23] | passedbody4= House | passeddate4= February 28, 1913 | passedvote4= agreed | signedpresident= William H. Taft | signeddate= March 3, 1913 | amendments= Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1938) | SCOTUS cases= }} The '''Gould Amendment''' sponsored by Rep. Samuel W. Gould (D) of Maine, amended the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 by requiring that the contents of any food package had to be “''plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count and ingredients''”

== External links == * {{cite web |url=https://www.fda.gov/regulatoryinformation/legislation/ucm148690.htm#enactment |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710011342/http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Legislation/ucm148690.htm#enactment |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 10, 2009 |title=Amendatory and Supplemental Enactments To the Federal Food and Drug Act of 1906 |author=62nd U.S. Congress |work=Gould Amendment, 37 Stat. 732 |series=Public Law 59-384 |year=1913 |publisher=U.S. Food and Drug Administration |accessdate=April 15, 2013}}

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