The Kitchen Cartel: Pure Food & Drug Act 1906
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Doctor Wiley's Report on the Food Industry
Chemist discovered that most commercially sold butter was not butter at all. Some flour labelled as made from wheat was really cheaper corn flour whitened with sulphuric acid. A few sporadic state and local laws were passed, but it did nothing to alleviate the problem. With a massive federal mandate that forced private interest to change their business practices, dairy producers would just continue doing what they wanted. The reports also made doctor wiley more of a political target.
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