Week 1

Question 1

Adulteration: food safety

Answer 1

Growing of crops and animals
Processing
Packaging
Ingredients
Processing aids
Additives

Question 2

Adulteration: economic

Answer 2

Misbranding
Fraud
Counterfeiting

Marketing a product as containing ingredients it does not possess, or are not of the marketed standard

Question 3

Early Regulation

Answer 3

State and local
Common law prevented diseased meat sale

Limited activity at congressional level

Question 4

Before Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 4

Bills debated in congress
Harvey wiley found widespread adulteration
Journalist reports of food frauds
1905 - The Jungle

Question 5

Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act of 1906

Answer 5

Added regulatory functions to US Bureau of Chemistry

USDA to inspect cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into
products for consumption

Question 6

Limits of 1906 Laws

Answer 6

No prohibition of false therapeutic claims

Sulfanilamide 1937
Diethylene glycol deaths

Question 7

Lessons

Answer 7

Public is not capable of self protection

Protect public from physical and economic harm
Courts must ensure the public is protected

Question 8

Legislation (state)

Answer 8

Constituent or business wants to change legislation

Find sponsors
Wisconsin is bicameral
Draft bill
Build support for the bill
Bills are introduced and heard in a corresponding committee
Outcomes