Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practices

Presents historical perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of nutrition science in Western Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1960s.

Suzanne Junod's essay "Proscribing Deception" The Gould Net Weight Amendment and the Origins of Mandatory Nutrition Labeling" is the winner of the 2017 Charles Thomson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government. In the second half of the nineteenth century, ways...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580465765
• ISBN13: 9781580465762
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"