Environmental, Health and Consumer Protection Acts

Statutes protecting the natural environment, public health or consumers from unsafe products. Belongs here: the Endangered Species Act of 1973, establishing United States federal protection for threatened and endangered species and their habitat; and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, the first federal United States statute regulating food and drug safety and labeling. Does not belong here: a statute whose primary subject is workplace terms rather than environmental, health or consumer safety, grouped under labor, employment and industrial relations acts instead.