Title: Discussion Forum Description: Experiment 1
Course: Food Analysis Labs > Section: Course Content

Nutrition Labels, Government Regulations, and Best Practices

Check out this website, and a couple of videos talking about what problems existed in food safety that led to the creation of the FDA, and how the FDA gets its job done.

- Why the FDA was established
- History of Chicago Stockyards and its relationship to formation of the FDA (video)
- Basic purpose of the FDA (FDA video)

Now, give a historical example (for example, a story from the news) of what can go wrong when food labels are inaccurate, or foods are contaminated. Your example should include the date and geographical location of the event, and a description of what happened. If your example is from the US, and happened after the FDA started regulating foods, please tell us what corrective action the government, or the company, took.