The Kitchen Cartel: Pure Food & Drug Act 1906
Conflicted: A History Podcast
The Great Cheating Crisis in America
In the late nineteenth century, forms of cheating were now possible on a large scale for the first time at exactly the moment when a food or medicine maker did not have to face his customer directly. Given the expanded distribution network, adulteration and deception became easy and very profitable. There were no national rules about hygiene, purity or honesty in the labelling of food and drugs. In fact, the united states was the only industrialized nation who didn't have these of laws on the books. American food exports were often turned away in europe because they were seen as untrustworthy and unsafe. Plus, wiley had to contend with a government bureaucracy that had little interest in doing anything about it
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