FDA-Federal Meat Inspection Act
Law
By: James Wilson
Date: 1906
Source: Wilson, James. FDA-Federal Meat Inspection Act. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Available online at http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/meat.htm; website home page: http://www.fda.gov (accessed March 15, 2003).
About the Author: James Wilson (1835–1920), born in Scotland, immigrated to the United States in 1852. He served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1897, President William McKinley (served 1897–1901) appointed Wilson secretary of agriculture, a position he held until 1913, making him the longest-serving agriculture secretary in U.S. history. In addition to authoring the Meat Inspection Act in 1906, Wilson convinced Congress to add the Bureaus of Chemistry, Plant Industry, and Soils to the U.S. Department of...
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