Posted by B.B. on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 2:48pm.
Essentially, I agree. However, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was passed largely as a result of public opinion. Sinclair Lewis's The Jungle was in large part responsible for its scene about a man falling into a vat of lard and being cooked and sold as "Armour's Pure Lard."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Food_and_Drug_Act
Note that article gives 1906 as the effective founding date of the FDA, although it didn't get that name until the 30s.
Actually, being a beekeeper, I happen to know the history for which you are asking. At the turn of the century, honey was a major sweetner, refined cane sugar was really in its infancy. To make more money, some folks were adding things to honey to stretch it into more volume. It was a major issue, believe it or not in the press.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AA155
So then am I wrong about the FDA not being formed because of being in response of a national event or some sort of emergency.
No, you're right. There were many events that brought the establishment of the FDA.
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