<Li> Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997, PL 105 - 115, 111 Stat 2296 </Li> <Li> Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, PL 110 - 85, 121 Stat 823 </Li> <P> The United States Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (abbreviated as FFDCA, FDCA, or FD&C), is a set of laws passed by Congress in 1938 giving authority to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to oversee the safety of food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics . A principal author of this law was Royal S. Copeland, a three - term U.S. Senator from New York . In 1968, the Electronic Product Radiation Control provisions were added to the FD&C . Also in that year the FDA formed the Drug Efficacy Study Implementation (DESI) to incorporate into FD&C regulations the recommendations from a National Academy of Sciences investigation of effectiveness of previously marketed drugs . The act has been amended many times, most recently to add requirements about bioterrorism preparations . </P> <P> The introduction of this act was influenced by the death of more than 100 patients due to a sulfanilamide medication where diethylene glycol was used to dissolve the drug and make a liquid form (see elixir sulfanilamide disaster). It replaced the earlier Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 . </P>

Who created the food drug and cosmetic act