The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates to "let there be…
The United States Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is a set of laws giving authority to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to oversee the safety of food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics. In 1968, the Electronic Product Radiation…
Made it possible to patent new varieties of plants. Source: 35 USC Ch. 15
Establishment of the FDA in the USA. View Source
This law was the culmination of about 100 bills over a quarter-century that aimed to rein in long-standing, serious abuses in the consumer product marketplace. View Source
First established a Federal Department to oversee agricultural crops (including fertilizers and materials used on crops. View Source
On May 15, 1862, President Lincoln signed legislation to establish the USDA and two and a half years later in his final message to Congress, Lincoln called USDA "The People's Department." Through our work on food, agriculture, economic development, science,…
First directed effort to collect and preserve agricultural species and develop better horticultural practices. View Source