FSN 436 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Adulterant, Federal Meat Inspection Act, Historia Plantarum (Theophrastus)
13 Jan 2017
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Passed down from moses basis of kosher foods. Discussed use of artificial preservatives & flavors added to foods for economic reasons. Selling adulterated food in rome in 400 a. d. penalty was banishment from rome or slavery. 1202 king john proclaimed 1st english food law. The statute fixed the size, weight and price of loaves, in relation to the price of wheat. 1820 a treatise on adulterations of food & culinary poisons & methods for detecting them. Had to flee to england when he demonstrated that pepper was almost invariably adulterated with mustard husks, pea flour, etc. Find definitions & where referred to in federal regulations. Defined by act, but courts left interpretation to specific cases. Vinegar made from selected fresh apples when actually made from dried apples. 1860 british parliament passes 1st british adulteration foods law. Three people died when copper of arsenite was used to color food served at a banquet.
