title: America's first drug regulation regime: the rise and fall of the Import Drug Act of 1848.
authors.affiliation: Shearman & Sterling LLP, Washington, D.C., USA.
authors.forename: Wesley J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Heath
mesh_terms: D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D004345:Drug Industry / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007880:Legislation, Drug / Q000266:history; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations