FDC Act
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The FDC Act is a key United States law that authorizes the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the safety, efficacy, and labeling of food, drugs, cosmetics, and certain medical devices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FDC Act canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1445156 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: FDC Act Context triple: [Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, shortName, FDC Act]
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A.
Aldrich–Vreeland Act
The Aldrich–Vreeland Act was a 1908 U.S. law that created emergency currency provisions and laid groundwork for banking reform in response to the Panic of 1907.
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B.
Federal Deposit Insurance Act
The Federal Deposit Insurance Act is a U.S. law that establishes federal deposit insurance for bank customers and sets the framework for regulating and resolving insured depository institutions.
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C.
Wheeler-Rayburn Act
The Wheeler-Rayburn Act is a New Deal-era U.S. federal law that restructured and regulated electric utility holding companies to curb monopolistic practices and protect consumers and investors.
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D.
Burton Act
The Burton Act is a key piece of legislation that established the governance and management framework for the Port of San Francisco.
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E.
Evarts Act
The Evarts Act was a landmark 1891 U.S. federal law that created the United States courts of appeals, significantly restructuring the federal judiciary and easing the Supreme Court’s caseload.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: FDC Act Target entity description: The FDC Act is a key United States law that authorizes the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the safety, efficacy, and labeling of food, drugs, cosmetics, and certain medical devices.
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A.
Aldrich–Vreeland Act
The Aldrich–Vreeland Act was a 1908 U.S. law that created emergency currency provisions and laid groundwork for banking reform in response to the Panic of 1907.
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B.
Federal Deposit Insurance Act
The Federal Deposit Insurance Act is a U.S. law that establishes federal deposit insurance for bank customers and sets the framework for regulating and resolving insured depository institutions.
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C.
Wheeler-Rayburn Act
The Wheeler-Rayburn Act is a New Deal-era U.S. federal law that restructured and regulated electric utility holding companies to curb monopolistic practices and protect consumers and investors.
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D.
Burton Act
The Burton Act is a key piece of legislation that established the governance and management framework for the Port of San Francisco.
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E.
Evarts Act
The Evarts Act was a landmark 1891 U.S. federal law that created the United States courts of appeals, significantly restructuring the federal judiciary and easing the Supreme Court’s caseload.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States federal statute ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
ⓘ
surface form:
FD&C Act
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| amendedBy |
21st Century Cures Act
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Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 ⓘ Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 ⓘ Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 ⓘ Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act of 2012 ⓘ Kefauver–Harris Drug Amendments of 1962 ⓘ
surface form:
Kefauver–Harris Amendments of 1962
Medical Device Amendments of 1976 ⓘ |
| authorizesRegulationOf |
biological products
ⓘ
cosmetics ⓘ drugs ⓘ food ⓘ medical devices ⓘ radiation-emitting electronic products ⓘ |
| containsSection |
Section 201 (definitions)
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Section 301 (prohibited acts) ⓘ Section 402 (adulterated food) ⓘ Section 403 (misbranded food) ⓘ Section 501 (adulterated drugs and devices) ⓘ Section 502 (misbranded drugs and devices) ⓘ Section 505 (new drugs) ⓘ Section 510 (registration of producers) ⓘ Section 510(k) (premarket notification) ⓘ Section 512 (new animal drugs) ⓘ Section 515 (premarket approval of devices) ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| enforcedBy | Food and Drug Administration ⓘ |
| establishesAuthorityFor |
adulteration standards
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biologics licensing in part ⓘ clinical investigations of drugs and devices ⓘ current good manufacturing practice requirements ⓘ misbranding standards ⓘ new drug approval ⓘ postmarket safety surveillance ⓘ premarket approval of certain medical devices ⓘ premarket notification (510(k)) for devices ⓘ recall authority for certain products ⓘ risk evaluation and mitigation strategies ⓘ |
| fullName | Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ⓘ |
| legalCitation | 21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq. ⓘ |
| primaryFocus |
efficacy
ⓘ
labeling ⓘ safety ⓘ |
| regulates |
color additives
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dietary supplements ⓘ food additives ⓘ infant formula ⓘ over-the-counter drugs ⓘ prescription drugs ⓘ tobacco product labeling aspects via amendments ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: FDC Act Description of subject: The FDC Act is a key United States law that authorizes the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the safety, efficacy, and labeling of food, drugs, cosmetics, and certain medical devices.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.