Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 (Princeton Legacy Library, 1004)

"Pure food" became the rallying cry among a divergent group of campaigners who lobbied Congress for a law regulating foods and drugs. James Harvey Young reveals the complex and pluralistic nature not only of that crusade but also of the broader Progressive movement of which it was a significant strand. In the vivid style familiar to readers of his earlier works, The Toadstool Millionaires and The Medical Messiahs, Young sets the pure food movement in the context of changing technology and medical theory and describes pioneering laws to control imported drugs and domestic oleomargarine. He explains controversy within the pure food coalition, showing how farming and business groups sought competitive commercial advantage, while consumer advocates wished to promote commercial integrity and advance public health. The author focuses on how the public became increasingly fearful of hazards in adulterated foods and narcotic nostrums and how Congress finally achieved the compromises necessary to pass the Food and Drugs Act and the meat inspection law of 1906. Originally published in 1989. The **Princeton Legacy Library** uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. "Pure food" became the rallying cry among a divergent group of campaigners who lobbied Congress for a law regulating foods and drugs. James Harvey Young reveals the complex and pluralistic nature not only of that crusade but also of the broader Progressive movement of which it was a significant strand. In the vivid style familiar to readers of his earlier works, The Toadstool Millionaires and The Medical Messiahs, Young sets the pure food movement in the context of changing technology and medical theory and describes pioneering laws to control imported drugs and domestic oleomargarine. He explains controversy within the pure food coalition, showing how farming and business groups sought competitive commercial advantage, while consumer advocates wished to promote commercial integrity and advance public health. The author focuses on how the public became increasingly fearful of hazards in adulterated foods and narcotic nostrums and how Congress finally achieved the compromises necessary to pass the Food and Drugs Act and the meat inspection law of 1906. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Murderous Traffic In Imported Drugs -- Preview: Toward The Food And Drugs Act Of 1906 -- The Drug Importation Act Of 1848 -- Mercury, Meat, And Milk -- American Ways Of Medication -- Growing Anxiety About The Food Supply -- A Broad Concern Brought Before The Congress -- Fervent Foes Of Adulteration -- A Prizewinning Bill -- This Greasy Counterfeit -- Glucose -- Oleomargarine -- The Impact Of Technology On Diet And Dosing -- The Paddock Bill -- The Chief Chemist -- The Canned-food Boom -- Drug Manufacturing And Prescribing -- Agricultural Chemists -- Iniative For A Law Resumed -- The Pure-food Congress -- Trichinoous Pork And Embalmed Beef -- The Mason Hearings -- Progress Toward A Law -- The New Century -- The Poison Squad -- Continuing Contest In The Congress -- Combining And Crusading For A Law -- Dr. Wiley's Coalition -- The Muckrakers -- Prelude To Victory -- The Senate Acts -- The House Committee Ponders -- The Jungle And The Meat-inspection Amendments -- A Socialist Novelist Revelations About Packingtown -- A President's Negotiations About Meat -- The Law Secured -- The Food And Drug Acts Of 1906 -- Provisions Of The Food And Meat Laws -- The Law Interpreted -- The Historiography Of Two Laws -- Pure Food: An End And A Beginning. James Harvey Young. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.