Zur Entwicklung der Nahrungsmittelkontrolle im Deutschen Reiche

Accum and food adulteration: A forgotten bicentennial

“…[7][8][9][10][11][12] Those activities and publications deal with Britain but what of other countries? There had long been limited concerns about isolated aspects of food identity, fraud and adulteration and their prevention in several European nations, such as France [13][14][15] and Germany, 16,17 but no systematic attack on these problems and their detection and prevention until the later 19th century, well after Accum's time. 11,18 In the USA, despite isolated calls for action against widespread proven fraud and adulteration in the later 19th century, [19][20][21] the first federal law, the Pure Food and Drug Act, was only passed in 1906 after vigorous campaigning by Dr Harvey Wiley, then Chief of the US Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Chemistry, and others had led to the foundation of the now well-known Food and Drug Administration.…”