BPS 4102 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
What is the Amendment to the Inland Revenue Act (1875)? - Answer-Canada's first
consumer protection law
Modelled heavily after the British Sale of Food and Drugs Act of 1875
What is an Act to Impose License Duties on Compounders of Spirits and to amend the
Act Respecting Inland Revenue to Prevent the Adulteration of Food, Drink and Drugs? -
Answer-Definition: adulterated "all articles of food with which was included any
deleterious ingredients or any material of less value than is understood by the name."
Why was adulterated liquor a health hazard? - Answer-- early 19th century
- Earliest Canadian law to protect the public against adulteration of drinks, food and
drugs
- Adulterated if it contained certain specified substances such as common table salt,
Indian hemp, or salts of zinc or lead
What are the 4 consumer protection provisions in the Inland Revenue Act (1875)? -
Answer-1) Workable terminology: Drugs were defined as "all articles used for curative or
medicinal purposes"
2) Established standards through licensing
3) Imposed requirements for proper labelling and advertisement by manufacturers
4) Sanctions to allow government to train inspectors
What is the Adulteration Act ? - Answer-- AA : 1845
- "An Act to Amend and too Consolidate as Amended the Several Acts Respecting the
Adulteration of Food and Drugs"
- Response to 1881 report
- Adhered to the four consumer protection provisions of the inland Revenue Act (1875)
- Separate regulatory regime for Food, Drugs, and Liquor
- Updated definition of "drugs" with reference to "medicines for internal or external use"
- Aligned drug manufacturing standards in Canada with British or American
Pharmacopoeia
- Further amendments were made over the years that strengthened the four principles.
, What changes were made to the Department Mandates of the Adulteration Act (AA)? -
Answer-- 1915 Labelling standards were strengthened
- 1918 (post WWII) AA authority transferred from Department of Customs and Inland
Revenue to the Department of Trade and Commerce
- 1919 AA was transferred to the new Food and Drugs Division of the new Department
of Health
- 1920 AA was repealed and replaced with the Food and Drugs Act
* Modeled more heavily after the US Food and Drugs Act of 1906
What is the 1920 Food and Drugs Act? - Answer-- Four consumer protection principles
continue from Inland Revenue Act 1875
- Definition of drug "all medicines for internal or external use for man or animal"
- Standards of drug manufacture = British or US Pharmacopoeia
- Label must be affixed to product with character, strength, quality and quantity
- Allowed for appointment of inspectors with powers to seize, for further analysis, food
or drug products believed to be in violation of Act
* Inspectorate expanded (from 1 full time food and drug inspector pre 1920, to larger
district and regional inspectorate staff by 1922)
- Manufacture, advertisement, or sale of adulterated food or drug a criminal offence
What did the 1845 cholera outbreak lead to ? - Answer-- Led to the establishment of
necessary patchwork health records boards in New Brunswick and Upper Canada to
deal with outbreaks
- Infections spread, quarantine
- patchwork health care system
- 7 cholera epidemics in history due to poor sanitation and contaminated water
- 1 to 8 cases annually
After confederation
(after cholera outbreak), Parliament passed which acts? - Answer-- Quarantine Act : to
allow Federal officials to inspect arriving ships for sick passengers
- Sick Mariners Act : which provided special medical services for seaman that fall ill on
Canadian waters or at Canadian ports
When was the Department of Health established in Canada? - Answer-- 1919
- 1928 : Department of Health mandate expanded (began dispensing and administering
medical and convalescent care, job retraining, and pensions for returning war veterans)
- renamed Pensions and National Health
What happened in 1912-1914 (WWI)? - Answer-- H1N1 flu pandemic
- 1928 : a lot of war vets returning, so the health department had to provide the
necessary services to them
What is the Department of Veterans Affairs? - Answer-- 1944 to 1993
AND ANSWERS ALL CORRECT
What is the Amendment to the Inland Revenue Act (1875)? - Answer-Canada's first
consumer protection law
Modelled heavily after the British Sale of Food and Drugs Act of 1875
What is an Act to Impose License Duties on Compounders of Spirits and to amend the
Act Respecting Inland Revenue to Prevent the Adulteration of Food, Drink and Drugs? -
Answer-Definition: adulterated "all articles of food with which was included any
deleterious ingredients or any material of less value than is understood by the name."
Why was adulterated liquor a health hazard? - Answer-- early 19th century
- Earliest Canadian law to protect the public against adulteration of drinks, food and
drugs
- Adulterated if it contained certain specified substances such as common table salt,
Indian hemp, or salts of zinc or lead
What are the 4 consumer protection provisions in the Inland Revenue Act (1875)? -
Answer-1) Workable terminology: Drugs were defined as "all articles used for curative or
medicinal purposes"
2) Established standards through licensing
3) Imposed requirements for proper labelling and advertisement by manufacturers
4) Sanctions to allow government to train inspectors
What is the Adulteration Act ? - Answer-- AA : 1845
- "An Act to Amend and too Consolidate as Amended the Several Acts Respecting the
Adulteration of Food and Drugs"
- Response to 1881 report
- Adhered to the four consumer protection provisions of the inland Revenue Act (1875)
- Separate regulatory regime for Food, Drugs, and Liquor
- Updated definition of "drugs" with reference to "medicines for internal or external use"
- Aligned drug manufacturing standards in Canada with British or American
Pharmacopoeia
- Further amendments were made over the years that strengthened the four principles.
, What changes were made to the Department Mandates of the Adulteration Act (AA)? -
Answer-- 1915 Labelling standards were strengthened
- 1918 (post WWII) AA authority transferred from Department of Customs and Inland
Revenue to the Department of Trade and Commerce
- 1919 AA was transferred to the new Food and Drugs Division of the new Department
of Health
- 1920 AA was repealed and replaced with the Food and Drugs Act
* Modeled more heavily after the US Food and Drugs Act of 1906
What is the 1920 Food and Drugs Act? - Answer-- Four consumer protection principles
continue from Inland Revenue Act 1875
- Definition of drug "all medicines for internal or external use for man or animal"
- Standards of drug manufacture = British or US Pharmacopoeia
- Label must be affixed to product with character, strength, quality and quantity
- Allowed for appointment of inspectors with powers to seize, for further analysis, food
or drug products believed to be in violation of Act
* Inspectorate expanded (from 1 full time food and drug inspector pre 1920, to larger
district and regional inspectorate staff by 1922)
- Manufacture, advertisement, or sale of adulterated food or drug a criminal offence
What did the 1845 cholera outbreak lead to ? - Answer-- Led to the establishment of
necessary patchwork health records boards in New Brunswick and Upper Canada to
deal with outbreaks
- Infections spread, quarantine
- patchwork health care system
- 7 cholera epidemics in history due to poor sanitation and contaminated water
- 1 to 8 cases annually
After confederation
(after cholera outbreak), Parliament passed which acts? - Answer-- Quarantine Act : to
allow Federal officials to inspect arriving ships for sick passengers
- Sick Mariners Act : which provided special medical services for seaman that fall ill on
Canadian waters or at Canadian ports
When was the Department of Health established in Canada? - Answer-- 1919
- 1928 : Department of Health mandate expanded (began dispensing and administering
medical and convalescent care, job retraining, and pensions for returning war veterans)
- renamed Pensions and National Health
What happened in 1912-1914 (WWI)? - Answer-- H1N1 flu pandemic
- 1928 : a lot of war vets returning, so the health department had to provide the
necessary services to them
What is the Department of Veterans Affairs? - Answer-- 1944 to 1993
