“To Keep Bread, Cake, and Cookies Nice
protect from insects, mold, and mice”
Keep those cookies safe on National Cookie Day!
“The conditions shown by even this short inspection to exist in the Chicago stock yards are revolting”
In this cover letter to the Neill-Reynolds report, President Theodore Roosevelt urged Congress to immediately enact legislation to provide for meat inspection and establish sanitary conditions for the meatpacking industry. Three months earlier author & journalist Upton Sinclair had written to Roosevelt, detailing many of the industry’s practices.
Message from President Theodore Roosevelt to the House of Representatives and the Senate, 06/04/1906
via DocsTeach
In this March 10, 1906 letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, author Upton Sinclair supported the presence of federal inspectors in the meat-packing houses. He advised that inspectors should come disguised as workingmen to discover the true conditions, as Sinclair did when he researched his book “The Jungle.”
January is National Hot Tea Month
With milk, sugar, honey, lemon or plain? How will you take your tea to celebrate National Hot Tea Month?
Did you get a chance to visit the exhibit What’s Cooking Uncle Sam? at the National Archives? If you haven’t, remember the exhibit will be closing on January 3rd. So please visit soon!
No mercy for bad eggs:
The Bureau of Chemistry inspectors approached their work as detectives on a mission to protect consumers. This photo shows inspectors burning crates of contaminated frozen eggs. Item from the Records of the Food and Drug Administration, 1877 - 2002.
See this photograph in the exhibit What’s Cooking Uncle Sam? at the National Archives. The exhibit closes on January 3rd.
Scared of a little “Mystery Meat?”
If you really want to be scared by food, don’t miss “Food Frights” on Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the National Archives Building with David Gregory of “Meet the Press” and Chef José Andrés.
And be sure to visit the National Archives’ “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” exhibit and see the records that document why the Government became involved in food safety.
What food frightens you?
July 22 - Rat Catcher’s Day
Our colleagues at the National Archives at Atlanta discovered today is Rat Catcher’s Day (or July 26 — sources vary). Be sure to check out their gallery for more rat-prevention tips.
Images in our photoset include:
“Build Out Rats”, 1941 - 1945; Records of the Office of Government Reports
“Don’t Feed Rats.”, 1941 - 1945; Records of the Office of Government Reports
