"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana, 1906
1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
Death in the Pot: Victorian Food Adulteration, Food Analysis and Analytical Chemistry; An Annotated Bibliography
"There is death in the pot" food safety work by Fredrick Accum 1820
MOA - Food Adulterations - WE Mason
MOA - The Question of Food Adulteration 1880
MOA - The Question of Food Adulteration 1890
MOA - Hoskins's Adulterations of Food and Drink
MOA - The Adulterations of Food 1862
MOA - Adulteration of Milk - Scientific American p152
MOA - Milk 1870 (info on adulteration p. 326)
Bibliography on Pure Food and Drug/Meat Inspection
Food Product Design Perspectives - The FDA - An Organizational Look
FDA Consumer The Story Of The Laws Behind The Labels
FDA Consumer The Long Struggle For The 1906 Law
FDA Backgrounder Milestones in U.S. Food and Drug Law History
Resources on the History of the Food and Drug Administration
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs - The Dangers of Consumption
Wylie: The History of a Crime Against the Food Law
Wylie: The History of a Crime...(alternate link)
History of Food Law (PDF)
History of Food Laws and Regulations
Food and Drug Legislation - The Story Behind the Law
Food and Drug Law Journal 50th Anniv Issue
The Great American Fraud Overview
Who Shall Meet the Foe If Not She? Good Housekeeping on the 1906 Act
Crisis and the Emergence of Economic Regulation: The Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 (PDF)
EH.net: History of Food and Drug Regulation in the United States
FDA Turns 100
The Palette of Our Palates: A brief history of food coloring and its regulation
Industry invites regulation: the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (PDF)
1906 Meat Inspection Act
Teddy Roosevelt and the Pure Foods Law
Sinclair: The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism
Meat Inspection Bill Passes the Senate
MOA - Second Report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health 1871
MOA - Bovine Tuberculosis 1887
History of Military Food Service
Safety Last: The Politics of E. Coli and Other Food Borne Killers (PDF)
Knowledge, Epistemology, and Chemistry in the American Meat Industry (PDF)
The Tuberculous Cattle Trust: Disease Contagion in an Era of Regulatory Uncertainty (PDF)
Also see: New York Times from May 28, 1906 through July 2, 1906
"FDA drug regulations kill more people than they save!"
Self-Medication FDA Regs Harvard Law
Experimental Treatments Unapproved but Not Always Unavailable
The Price Isn't Right (the cost of drug development)
Consumer Project on Technology: Costs of Research and Development
"Safety Caps are Killing our Children!!"
National Poison Prevention Week March 16-22, 2003
Poisoning Interventions Child-Resistant Packaging and the Posion Prevention Packaging Act
CDC WISQARS system - generates fatality statistics (re: safety caps/poisoning)
Product Safety Regulation, Alessandra Arcuri, LL M (PDF)
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System
CPSC Urges Observance Of National Poison Prevention Week March 1975
CPSC Reminds Public Of Exemption To Child-Resistant Packaging Regulations August 25, 1976
CPSC Urges Public Participation During National Poison Prevention Week March 16, 1977
Agencies Observe National Poison Prevention Week March 18, 1979
Posion Prevention Week Planned To Warn Parents Of Household Poisons March 12, 1980
National Poison Prevention Week Reminds Consumers To Protect Young Children From Poisons March 13,1981
National Poison Prevention Week March 21, 1983
Updated 7/3/2009
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