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Despite some beliefs to the contrary, the United States has developed laws regulating food which are not surpassed in breadth and definition elsewhere in the world, and the history of these laws began literally centuries ago.
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Oscar E. Anderson, Jr. 1958. The Health of a Nation—Harvey W. Wiley and the Fight for Pure Food. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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Schultz, H.W. (1981). History of Food Laws in the United States. In: Food Law Handbook. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7373-5_1
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