We have Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley to thank for the ingredient lists plastered on our food that inform consumers across the country. The American chemist was a pioneer of the pure food movement at a ...

When a personage dies, as did Harvey Washington Wiley last week (age, 85; of heart failure), people tell anecdotes about him showing the kind of man he was. Some Wiley stories: ¶ Dressed in silk hat ...

Perhaps no one will feel compelled to rush to the June 30 centennial celebration of the Pure Food and Drug Act at the Harvey W. Wiley Federal Building in College Park, Md. Adelaide Wiley Loges keeps a ...

—Meet the Forgotten Chemist and His “Poison Squad,” Whose Fight Against Deadly Chemicals in Food Led to the Establishment of the FDA— To demonstrate the peril lurking in these ubiquitous chemicals — ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. By the late 19th century, the American food supply was rife with frauds, fakes, ...

Harvey Wiley. Credit: U.S. Food and Drug Administration/flickr/Public Domain Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advised consumers to avoid Kellogg’s ...

Dr. Harvey Wiley, determined to banish dangerous substances from dinner tables, took on the powerful food manufacturers and their allies. Wiley embarked upon a series of bold and controversial trials ...

The story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley who, determined to banish dangerous substances from dinner tables, took on the powerful food manufacturers and their allies.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Congratulations to our graduates and to the family and friends who are so much a part of everything we are celebrating today. This is an historic day at Purdue, as I will ...