Explore how Government regulation of food processing and labeling evolved after the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution transformed life for many 19th-century Americans. Factories brought jobs, urban living, and a new relationship with food. City-dwellers became increasingly removed from the source of their food, leaving them more vulnerable to mishandled and adulterated products.
Welcome to NC Eats, an online resource for the history of food and eating in North Carolina. This website is designed for students–both young and old–to explore primary and secondary sources related to the revolution in eating that occurred in the United States and North Carolina between the 1910s and 1960s.
The Framingham Heart Study is one of the most important epidemiological studies ever undertaken. Funded by the National Institute of Health, the Study enrolled 5,209 residents of Framingham, a town near Boston, Massachusetts, to investigate the causes and the prevention of cardiovascular disease at a time when little was known about this.
The timeline below details the history of FSIS and its predecessors, from 1862 to the present. Formation of USDA’s Division of Chemistry In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln founded the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and appointed a chemist, Charles M. Wetherill, to lead USDA’s Division of Chemistry, which in 1901 became the Bureau of Chemistry. …
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The origins of the FDA History Office can be traced back to March 1968, when Commissioner James Goddard assigned Wallace Janssen, a Public Information Specialist and Special Assistant to the Assistant Commissioner for Education and Information, the responsibility of establishing an agency-wide historian’s office.
Significant Dates in U.S. Food and Drug Law History (1820-2009) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website 1820 Eleven physicians meet in Washington, D.C., to establish the U.S. Pharmacopeia, the first compendium of standard drugs for the United States.
Kingman House was the first of several old-house headquarters for the Framingham Heart Study in Framingham, Massachusetts.
From the University of Minnesota: This site presents a history of the research of investigators among populations as they worked in tandem with clinical and bench scientists to seek the causes of common heart and blood vessel diseases and the potential for their prevention….
The Seven Countries Study was the first to examine systematically the relation among lifestyle, diet, and the rates of heart attack and stroke in contrasting populations….This, my personal account of adventures in the field, conveys only a tiny part of the excitement, and recalls only a few of the many contributions and difficulties of the …
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…In the early 1950s, the American Medical Association Council on Food and Nutrition recognized the lack of support for nutrition education in U.S. medical schools. A comprehensive report prepared by the National Academy of Science – National Research Council in 1985, Nutrition Education in U.S. Medical Schools, recommended that medical schools incorporate into their curricula …
Major accomplishments in nutritional sciences for support of human space travel have occurred over the past 40 y. This article reviews these accomplishments, beginning with the early Gemini program and continuing through the impressive results from the first space station Skylab program that focused on life sciences research, the Russian contributions through the Mir space …
“The roots of the energy drink phenomenon — and the claims surrounding ingredient mixes — can be traced to Japan. Those origins appear tied to the emergence of supposed cure-alls after World War II, a time when drugs there were in short supply.
Everyone seems to love popcorn. It has become a mainstay at movie theaters, sporting events, amusement parks, and nearly everywhere else people gather. Although Americans are now such avid consumers of popcorn, and its agricultural history is long, its commercial history is comparatively short. Popcorn was not mentioned in early farm papers and seed trade …
