“The Food and Nutrition Board was first organized in 1940, as a committee within the Division of Biology and Agriculture of the National Academy of Sciences–National Research Council and charged with advising the National Government in very broad terms, relative to foods and nutrition. This action was a part of the intense effort to strengthen …
George Washington’s mess kit For more than a century after 1776, the basis of all troop feeding–for soldiers in camp, on the march, in action, or just surviving–was the simple fare of meat and bread, and sometimes vegetables, known as the garrison ration.
Until a little over a century ago, there were no federal laws or regulations in place to protect the public from potentially dangerous substances in medicines or foods. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln appointed a chief chemist to serve in the new Department of Agriculture. This appointment marked the beginning of the Bureau of Chemistry, …
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Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 (THE “WILEY ACT”) PUBLIC LAW NUMBER 59-384 34 STAT. 768 (1906) 21 U.S.C. Sec 1-15 (1934) (REPEALED IN 1938 BY 21 U.S.C. Sec 329 (a))