Gould Amendment required that food package contents be “plainly and conspicuously marked
On Mar. 3, 1913, the Gould Amendment, sponsored by Rep. Samuel W. Gould of Maine, which required that contents be plainly marked on the outside of the food package, was added to the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act.
A pivotal ruling on the use of a substance in food came in 1914, when the government had to show a relationship between a chemical additive and the harm it allegedly caused in humans.
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Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Credit: PDF: A Century of Ensuring Safe Foods and Cosmetics, 2006.
