1950 - Consumer Protection

Consumer Protection

A House Select Committee on Foods and Cosmetics begins 3 years of hearings at Washington, D.C., under the chairmanship of Brooklyn, N.Y., Democrat James J. Delaney (see Swanson, 1956).

Many UN soldiers in Korea will fall ill from eating kimchee, the pickled vegetable mixture that Koreans keep in dark cellars or on roofs in less than sanitary conditions, and GIs will be forbidden to eat the staple that carries Koreans through their cold winters.