The first laws that really contemplated food safety were introduced back in 19 o six, a good year. Samonel had been discovered a couple of decades before, but it wasn't associated with a food born illness and making people sick just yet. In 19 93, there was the really horific jack in the box hamburger outbreak involving ecoli. More than 150 people have become ill after meeting paited hamburger. Meeted jack in thebox resturant in idaho. One child died,. where a number of children died after eating ecoli tainted hamburger. And so it unleashed this demand for cleaner, safer, not rotten meat to be sold to the public. From there