Pure Food and Drug Act prohibits interstate commerce of which products?

• A. Adulterated (not pure) food and drugs
• B. Only adulterated meat
• C. Cigarettes
• D. Alcoholic beverages

Answer: (A)

The key idea tested is what the Pure Food and Drug Act was designed to regulate in interstate commerce. It was enacted to prevent the sale of adulterated (not pure) or misbranded foods and drugs across state lines, protecting public health by ensuring products sold nationwide meet basic safety and labeling standards. That makes adulterated foods and drugs the focus of the act's prohibition.

Understanding this helps place the act in context: it targeted purity and truthful labeling for foods and medicines moving between states, not meat specifically, not cigarettes, and not alcoholic beverages. Meat safety was addressed by a separate 1906 law (the Meat Inspection Act), while alcohol regulation followed later routes (Prohibition era laws).