Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. February 16, 1962. "...assigned the United States Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare primary responsibility for developing and coordinating programs for the prevention, detection and identificatin of human exposure to, or contamination of foods and drugs with, toxic chemicals or giologicals that might be used in an attack upon the United States". (OCD, Annual Report 1962, pp. 53-54; See also: White House, Executive Order 1100, February 16, 1962)