Food Safety Laws

Stephanie A. Mercier and Steve A. Halbrook ()
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Stephanie A. Mercier: Farm Journal Foundation
Steve A. Halbrook: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Chapter Chapter 9 in Agricultural Policy of the United States, 2020, pp 127-142 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The vivid descriptions of the unsanitary practices used in Chicago meatpacking plants in the 1906 best-selling novel The Jungle helped spur Congressional action to provide federal oversight over such facilities for the first time, an effort that President Theodore Roosevelt helped to mobilize. On the same day in that year that the president signed the Meat Inspection Act, he also signed the Pure Food Act that required federal oversight of food processing to prevent the adulteration of food products with toxic or unwholesome ingredients. The origins of federal oversight over grain merchandising, reduction of the risk of acts of agro-terrorism, and the federal regulatory framework for agricultural biotechnology are also discussed.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36452-6_9

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