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在美洲,草药通常是指由非专业人员选择,用于治疗疾病或保健的天然植物药或其提取物。要了解今日美国草药状况,必须首先了解与药物销售有关的基本法律知识。1906年的食品及药物法是第一个重要的联帮药品法规,它主要是针对专卖药及专利药物工业中制造与销售假药而采取的果断措施。此后,在1938年又通过了联帮食品、药品及化妆品法,它要求所销售的药品经检验是安全的。后来,这个法规在1962年又经修正为所有药品要证明其在安全而有效期内之后再销售。然而,不是所有药品都受1938年的法规及后来1962年修正案的控制。有些符合最早法规的、1938年之前一直在销售的药品,虽然后来证明其无效,可仍
In the Americas, herbal medicine usually refers to natural botanical drugs or extracts thereof that are selected by non-professionals for the treatment of disease or health care. To understand the state of the art in the United States today, you must first understand the basic legal knowledge about drug sales. The Food and Drug Act of 1906 is the first major drug law to be co-sponsored and is directed at decisive measures taken to manufacture and sell counterfeit medicines in the monopoly and patented drugs industries. Since then, the Food, Drugs and Cosmetic Act was passed again in 1938 and required the drugs sold to be tested to be safe. Later, the law was amended in 1962 to sell all medicines to prove they were safe and effective. However, not all medicines are governed by the 1938 regulations and the subsequent 1962 amendments. Some medicines that meet the earliest regulations and were marketed until 1938 may later prove ineffective