I respectfully disagree. Market mechanisms moved to correct disturbances in the food supply and private canners and bottlers invented techniques long before the FDA was a gleam in a Bureaucrat's eye.
Many would argue the FDA has INHIBITED innovation and new sanitation techniques rather than encourage them.
Many thanks for your comments.
Best regards,
Prior to governmental meat inspections and laws, all kinds of things went on in slaughter houses and in Chicago, that would turn your modern stomach!
By 1910, Coca Cola no longer contained any coca leaves ( it never did contain pure cocaine!),but had a higher alcohol content ( yes, enough to make some drunk ! )than I bet you know about and it was the alcohol, that the government went after.
You can disagree with me till the cows come home, but historical facts are NOT up for " feelings " nor opinion.Unlike you, I mentioned incontrovertible fact, with no mention of canned goods or innovations.
In the late 1800s,many dairy farms were usually filthy places, cows were fed garbage ( yes, actual GARBAGE!) and/or feed distillery waste, which made the cows' milk tainted, even before the grocers got their hands on it. Many cows were tubercular, so ill and feeble, that they had to be raised on cranes, so that they could be milked. In 1902, in N.Y.C., when the city's Health Commission tested 3970 different milk samples,they found 2095, or over 50% had been adulterated. And no, this was NOT just limited to N.Y.C., At that timed!
Market mechanisms didn't stem the tide of these practices, the Federal Government did.