United States v. Jessie P. Barnett, Jr., Barnett & Sons Salvage, Ltd. And Billy D. Hicks

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

When Theodore Roosevelt was President of the United States, the misbranding and harmful adulteration of foods had become of such nationwide moment that Congress enacted the first Food and Drug Act, 1906.

Eight years later, in an appraisal of the Act, the Supreme Court said:

The statute upon its face shows, that the primary purpose of Congress was to prevent injury to the public health by the sale and transportation in interstate commerce of misbranded and adulterated foods. The legislation, as against mis-branding, intended to make it possible that the consumer should…