RE: history of seafood safety

From: Pamela Tom (pdtom@ucdavis.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 19 2007 - 08:47:10 PDT

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    Kelly,

     

    Perhaps you may get the information you are seeking via the help of:

    - a reference librarian with the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    (http://www.sil.si.edu/research/)

    - the Department of Interior (http://www.doi.gov/history.html), or

    - the FDA History Office
    (http://www.fda.gov/oc/history/resourceguide/office.html)?

     

    The US Department of the Interior Bureau of Fisheries was the
    predecessor for seafood regulatory activities before it moved to the US
    FDA.

     

    The FDA History Office offers the following research assistance:

    - development of historical background on legislative initiatives

    - creation of briefing documents on precedents to major organizational
    changes in the agency

    - background papers on policy considerations

    - scholarly articles and monographs on select areas of scientific and
    regulatory history

     

     

    Pamela Tom

    PFT President

    University of California

    Food Science and Technology Department

    One Shields Avenue

    Davis, CA 95616 USA

     

    Web: http://seafood.ucdavis.edu

     

    59th Pacific Fisheries Technologists Conference

    February 3-6, 2008 in San Francisco, CA

    Web: http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/pft2008

     

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-seafood@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-seafood@ucdavis.edu] On
    Behalf Of cultural-xings@comcast.net
    Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 5:28 AM
    To: seafood@ucdavis.edu
    Subject: history of seafood safety

     

    thanks to everyone who sent me suggestions and info earlier

     

    I'm hoping you all can help me in another area. I have had little luck
    in finding informtion on the history of seafood safety in the US and how
    the FDA ended up with seafood. The histories of the FDA that are
    available fous on medicine and milk, and other issues of early
    adulteration problems. There is little mention of seafood yet typhoid
    outbreaks in the early 1900s were all traced back to shellfish leading
    some states like MD to adopt strict sewage laws and systems.

     

    any suggestions on histories of seafood safety, circa 1880s-present day?

     

    Thanks again, 

    --

    Kelly Feltault, MA

    PhD Candidate

    Economic Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies

    American University

    Adjunct Faculty

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