Concern about adulterated food and food contamination resulted in the passage of Food laws and regulations in the United States , the first which was adopted in the 1780 in Massachusetts. This law penalized the seller of diseased, unwholesome, and corrupted product. Another law penalized the seller of wooden nutmegs. Other states also had a variety of statutes dealing with food. When did the concern of adulterated food began? At the federal level, no food legislation was passed until late in the 19th century, although the U.S Department of agriculture(USDA) began to be interested in the problem of adulterated feed and food earlier than that. People became increasingly aware that protection was beyond what each state could do alone. Concern about adulterated tea brought about the first federal food law, the Tea Act of 1883. This law attempted to prevent the sale of adulterated teas, but it was useless because it provided no standards for tea and no...
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