Historical Food Law Facts
The major food safety law that was passed in 1906 in response to the book The Jungle.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
A chemist, bureaucrat, and pure food crusader who represented the thick combination of antiadulteration movement by the end of the 19th century. In charge of the Poison Squad.
Who is Harvey Wiley?
This describes the contamination, deception, or false substitution of one product for another. It was also used increasingly in the 19th century to refer to suspicious foods.
What is adulteration?
The year Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug act.
When is 1906
The city that became the center of meat packing operations.
What is Chicago?
Debates during the late 19th century over long-standing problems of rise of early industrial artificial foods from manufacturing sites and the pronounced public problem of adulteration.
What are the Pure Food Crusades?
This man founded Armour and Company which was one of the biggest meat packing empires in the U.S.
Who is Philip Danforth Armour?
Between 1879 and 1906, there were this many separate pure food laws introduced and debated in the House and Senate.
What are 190 separate laws?
The Oleomargarine Act was passed in this year and was the first large-scale, federal law in the U.S. speaking directly to the question of adulteration mandating the taxing and labeling of artificial butter.
When is 1886?
The first man took a more chemical view while the second one advanced a more biological and nutritional view when it came to the philosophies about what counted as pure food.
Who is Wiley and Atwater Respectively?
The technological innovation that allowed Chicago beef to reach distant states like New York.
What is the Refrigerated railroad cart?
This man filed a lawsuit against Swift and Company after getting injured while expected to do the work of three people.
Who is Vincentz Rutkowski?
The group that the lawsuit in the Rutkowski injury case was filed against.
What is Swift and Company?
The year that Philip Armour appeared before the Senate committee on the transportation and sale of meat.
When is 1889?
The name of the book written by Rudolf Clemen in 1923 that uses technological change to explain the evolution of meatpacking?
What is The American Livestock and Meat Industry?
The group of companies that dominated the meat industry and were referred to as the "Big Four". (DOUBLE POINTS)
What are the Armour and Company / Swift and Company / Morris and Company / Hammond and Company?
The first chemist of the newly chartered New York Board of Health and its Anti-Adulteration Division (1866), and a founding member of the American Chemical Society (1876).
Who is Charles Chandler?
Two forums for addressing agricultural and food analyses that tie together in purpose and key personnel as well as in timing. Both housed within the USDA with chemists supervision. (DOUBLE POINTS)
What are the Bulletin 13 with Wiley and the Office of Experiment Stations (OES) with Atwater?
The year meat packing lines were pioneered in Cincinnati's pork packinghouses.
When was the 1860s?
The date that the senate opened up the Vest Committee for Investigation in the meat packing industry.
When is 1889?
In the 1830s, this group were the forerunners in the public health movement to fight food and drug adulteration. Requiring analyses of water, medicine, foods, and even colored candy wrappers instigated by new Napoleonic Codes.
What are the French Regional Administrators?
The father of nutritional science, in large part because of his different views of food, diet, and physiology. He was among the first to apply a broad-based quantitative and instrumental ethos to the problem of human nutrition.
Who is Wilbur Atwater?
The federal law aimed at breaking monopolies that was being debated during the Senate investigation of the meat industry.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Adulteration of foods, drinks, and drugs goes back at least as far as notices from this period or group.
When is the Ancient Hittites (1500 BC) and Roman Legal Codes?
Wiley’s most publicly popular effort, the Poison Squad, expanded on this idea by Atwater where human bodies could be used as instruments.
What is Atwater's calorimeter?