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The standards were unified in 1975 when the United States Pharmacoepeial Convention bought the National Formulary and the Drug Standards Laboratory from APhA. Today the United States Pharmacopeia/National Formulary is the official compendium of drug standards of the United States.
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- Earliest Drug Testing in The Equine Industry
- History of Drug Testing in The Workforce: Ford Sociological Department
- History of Drug Testing in The 1980s: Employment
- Drug Free Workplace and Omnibus Acts
- Widespread Adoption and Drug Testing Advancements
- Dealing with Covid and Rising Drug Use
The first drug testing was used in horse racing. European horse trainers brought the techniques of doping horses with them to America which was soon adopted by many American horse trainers in the early 1910s. The first horseman that was suspected publicly of doping horses was John Oliver Keene, better known as Jack Keene, the developer of Keeneland...
It is now widely accepted that drug testing employees increases productivity and safetyand reduces employee turnover, but management noticed this trend long before data was collected or published about it. In the 1910s Henry Ford’s automobile business was booming. The increase in sales meant that he needed to keep approximately 15,000 workers manni...
Beginning in 1980 there were several high profile workplace accidents that were linked to on the job drug use. In 1981 an accident aboard the USS Nimitz left 14 sailors dead and 48 injured. Property damage was estimated at $150 million and when autopsies were performed it was found that six sailors tested positive for marijuana. The Department of D...
As drug use and on the job accidents attributed to drugs continued to rise it became a common story in news media. In 1986 Ronald Reagan used his executive powers as President to issue Executive Order 12564which required mandatory drug testing for federal employees. In response Congress passed the Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988which outlined drug ...
During the 1980s immunoassays were developed with increased sensitivity that were necessary to detect highly potent drugs. The pinnacle of early immunoassay testing was enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA). In 1988 with the expanding role of independent labs in testing employees subject to the drug free workplace policy the government standar...
As 2020 began COVID 19 caused many businesses to implement work from home programs and suspend random drug testing for employees to limit contact. Many researchers theorized that drug abuse would increase and as inflated numbers of overdose deaths started to come in across the country it seemed their prediction was accurate. It came as a shock when...
Nov 2, 2016 · When the 1970’s rolled in, the United States government decided to take action on the growing drug problem in this country. Workplace drug testing became their solution and we still follow these guidelines today.
Although it was not known by its present name until 1930, FDA’s modern regulatory functions began with the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act, a law a quarter-century in the making that...
1938 Congress passes The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FDC) Act of 1938, which requires that new drugs show safety before selling. This starts a new system of drug regulation. The Act also ...
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Charles Rice (1841-1901): creator of the modern scientific pharmacopoeia and father of the National Formulary. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2004 Jul-Aug;44 (4):521-3. doi: 10.1331/1544345041475760.
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The Biologics Act of 1902 required that federal government grant premarket approval for every biological drug and for the process and facility producing such drugs. Never before had such premarket control existed in the United States.
