To the editor: The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was enacted “for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs ...

Think about the food your great grandparents (or even their parents) ate in childhood and you might imagine farm fresh produce, pure milled ... landmark Food and Drug Act. As more folks left ...

A consumer advocate named Harvey W. Wiley started the FDA in 1906, through the Pure Food and Drug Act, in part a response to the snake oil problem. Wiley also had a passion for food safety.

On June 30, 1906, former President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drug Act into law, establishing comprehensive government oversight surrounding harmful foods, drugs and medicines. This ...

In 1906, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act, the first of a series of major consumer protection laws that prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated foods and drugs in interstate ...