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Wheeler-Lea Act

United States [1938]

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    In quackery: Legislation to curb quackery

    …Act of 1938 and the Wheeler-Lea Act (also 1938) provided a certain amount of governmental control over claims made in advertising, in newspapers and magazines, over radio and television, in circulars, and on labels. Such controls are exercised only on products in interstate commerce, however. Individual states vary in the…

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