Chemist Roosevelt at work
President Roosevelt looks at milk under a microscope, surrounded by containers of milk and scientific tools.
Comments and Context
Of the many reforms advanced during the Roosevelt presidency, the work to assure poor foods and drugs was as noble and far-reaching as any. “Adulterated” foods and drugs, “patent medicines,” miracle cures, and foods and beverages stretched by chalk, sawdust, and worse, were a plague that affected all. Rancid meat and fraudulently labeled perishables were clear hazards to health.
