Learning Objectives

1. Understand the historical context of US Food Law
2. Discuss public outrage leading to the Meat Inspection Act 1906
   Review the circumstances leading up to the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
3. Review the incidents that catalyzed the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938.
4. Survey the regulatory history of the Miller Pesticide Amendment and Food Additive and Color Additive Acts.
5. Examine the Delaney Clause and the later evolution of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996
6. Survey other US food regulatory agencies.

Advance Reading

1. FDA History web page and primary links
2. Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (skim)

Suggested Reading

1. Milestones in US Food and Drug Law History
2. Rachael Carson
3. The Cranberry Boggle Time Nov 1959
4. Taste of Raspberries, Taste of Death
   The 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide Incident. 

Keywords

1. Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
2. Miller Pesticide Amendment 1954
3. Food Additive Amendment 1958
4. Color Additive Amendment 1960
5. Zero risk
6. Silent Spring
7. Food Quality Protection Act 1996