Food Safety Milestones in USA

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  • President Lincoln appoints a chemist to USDA

    President Lincoln appoints a chemist, Charles M. Wetherill, to serve in the new Department of Agriculture.This was the beginning of the Bureau of Chemistry, the predecessor of the Food and Drug Administration
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    Evolution of Food Safety in USA

  • National Food and Drug Law Bill - Defeated

    Peter Collier, chief chemist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, recommends passage of a national food and drug law, following his own food adulteration investigations. The bill was defeated, but during the next 25 years more than 100 food and drug bills were introduced in Congress.

  • Committee on Food Standards

    Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (now AOAC International) establishes a Committee on Food Standards headed by Dr. Wiley. States begin incorporating these standards into their food statutes.

  • Biologics Control Act

    The Biologics Control Act is passed to ensure purity and safety of serums, vaccines, and similar products used to prevent or treat diseases in humans.Congress appropriates $5,000 to the Bureau of Chemistry to study chemical preservatives and colors and their effects on digestion and health. Dr. Wiley's studies draw widespread attention to the problem of food adulteration. Public support for passage of a federal food and drug law grows

  • Food and Drugs Act - Meat Inspection Act - President Roosevelt

    The original Food and Drugs Act is passed by Congress on June 30 and signed by President Theodore Roosevelt. It prohibits interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks and drugs.
The Meat Inspection Act is passed the same day.Shocking disclosures of insanitary conditions in meat-packing plants, the use of poisonous preservatives and dyes in foods, and cure-all claims for worthless and dangerous patent medicines were the major problems leading to the enactment of these laws.

  • First Certified Color Regulations

  • Food, Drug and Insecticide Administration was created

  • FDA was Created

  • Federal Food Drug and Cosmetics (FDC) Act

  • First Food Standards

    Canned Tomatoes, Puree, Paste

  • FDA - Black Book

    Guidance to the Industry

  • FDA First List - GRAS

    The List Contains 200 Substances

  • FDA First Sanitation Programs

    Milk, Shellfish, Food Service and Interstate travel facilities

  • Low-Acid Food Processing Regulations

  • Tamper-Resistant Packaging Regulations - FDA Red Book

    Toxicological Principles - Food Additives

  • Nutrition Labelling and Education Act

    Nutrition Labeling and Education Act requires all packaged foods to bear nutrition labeling and all health claims for foods to be consistent with terms defined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The law preempts state requirements about food standards, nutrition labeling, and health claims and, for the first time, authorizes some health claims for foods. The food ingredient panel, serving sizes, and terms such as "low fat" and "light" are standardized.

  • Nutrition Facts - Mandatory

    Nutrition facts, basic per-serving nutritional information, are required on foods under the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990. Based on the latest public health recommendations, FDA and the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture recreate the food label to list the most important nutrients in an easy-to-follow format.

  • FDA Modernization Act

    Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act reauthorizes the Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992 and mandates the most wide-ranging reforms in agency practices since 1938. Provisions include measures to accelerate review of devices, regulate advertising of unapproved uses of approved drugs and devices, and regulate health claims for foods.

  • cGMP Initiative

    An effort to enhance and update the regulation of manufacturing processes and end-product quality of animal and human drugs and biological medicines is announced, the current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) initiative. The goals of the initiative are to focus on the greatest risks to public health in manufacturing procedures, to ensure that process and product quality standards do not impede innovation, and to apply a consistent approach to these issues across FDA.

  • Food labels must include trans fat content

    To help consumers choose heart-healthy foods, the Department of Health and Human Services announces that FDA will require food labels to include trans fat content, the first substantive change to the nutrition facts panel on foods since the label was changed in 1993.

  • Food Allergy Labeling and Consumer Protection Act

    Passage of the Food Allergy Labeling and Consumer Protection Act requires the labeling of any food that contains a protein derived from any one of the following foods that, as a group, account for the vast majority of food allergies: peanuts, soybeans, cow's milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, and wheat.

  • Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

    FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA). FSMA provides FDA with new enforcement authorities related to food safety standards, gives FDA tools to hold imported foods to the same standards as domestic foods, and directs FDA to build an integrated national food safety system in partnership with state and local authorities.