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Course: WVA 102 Food Preservation Methods > Section: WVA 102 Food Preservation Methods

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A Century of Ensuring Safe Foods and Cosmetics

Prompted by increasing concerns over the use of untested chemicals as food preservatives, Harvey Wiley, M.D., chief chemist of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Chemistry, set out to investigate whether such preservatives should be used in food and which quantities were safe. Congress appropriated funds for the studies in 1902.

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