ABSTRACT
The establishment of a set of laws to control the purity of the food and drink offered to the public can be traced back in history to 1202, when King John of 1784 Massachusetts enacted the first general food law in the United States 1848 The Import Drugs Act-the first federal statute to ensure the quality of drugs-was passed
England issued the first English food law, which included the prohibition of the adulteration of bread with such ingredients as ground peas or beans [1]. The earliest history of food law in the United States occurred as follows:
Harvey Wiley, who became the chief chemist of the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry in 1883, is generally considered to be the father of the original U.S. pure food and drug laws. His life’s work was concerned with food and drug adulteration. He not only championed the first Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, but he can also be considered the federal government’s first strong consumer advocate [2], In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States, drugs of very dubious quality, as well as many
quack or patent remedies that ranged from valueless, to harmful, to addicting, were distributed and sold totally without control.
