Current Day Regulations Essay

"There is absolutely no question in my mind that we not only have the safest food in the world, but we have the safest food supply the nation has ever known," - Jim May

Since the start of the food industry, selling and profit of agriculture and farming, the customers have rarely seen the other side. Unless the food comes from a small farm owned by someone you know, chances are you won’t know what went into it. The history of how current day regulations came to be is long and unpleasant but nevertheless important.

In 1820 the first drug list was created by a group of physicians in order to set a standard for drugs in the United States. Forty years later in 1862, President Lincoln established the department of agriculture. In the early twentieth

Being so close to a holiday is detrimental on its own due to the large feasts and parties, but what made it worse is the recall was for cranberries, it was known as the “Great Cranberry Scare”. Cranberries that were already out for shipment to stores showed traces of aminotriazole, an herbicide used on crop fields after crops had been harvested. Aminotriazole was found to be a carcinogen in laboratory animals and was used while the cranberries were still in the field even though that was prohibited. Through this event, American families learned that the food supply is not safe 100% all the time and it’s possible for contamination to occur. A year later, the Federal Hazardous Substance Labeling Act was established to require warnings on household chemical products. The Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendment was created in 1962 after a sleeping pill in Europe was causing birth defects in babies, this act was created to place stricter regulations on drugs and require drug companies to prove effectiveness of their product. This does however exclude the Delaney requirements, if animal feed or animal drugs show to be carcinogenic they are still able to use them only if the animals show no levels of the carcinogen when passed on to the market. The Consumer Bill of Rights was announced by Kennedy, this bill includes rights of safety, information, to choose, and be