Kenneth L. Milstead

I should also like to call your attention to the report on Fake Medical Devices prepared by our Division of Public Information. This report is a catalogue of regulatory actions covering devices since the first Congress and a supplement to this paper. We are sure that a casual review of this report will impress you with not only the magnitude of the problem of quackery in devices, but will elicit from many of you that shopworn expression: “Why don’t they do something about it?” We do. Since the passage of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938, which brought medical devices under Federal control, interstate traffic of hundreds of such articles has been stopped. Some of the most notorious swindles of all times …