HARVEY W. WILEY, M.D.
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[the very first commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), then known as the “US Bureau of Chemistry.”]

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[1929 Book] The History of a Crime Against the Food Law by Dr. Harvey Wiley

"No food product in our country would have any trace of benzoic acid, sulfurous acid or sulfites or any alum or saccharin, save for medical purposes.   No soft drink would contain caffeine or theobromine.   No bleached flour would enter interstate commerce.   Our foods and drugs would be wholly without any form of adulteration and misbranding.   The health of our people would be vastly improved and the life greatly extended.   The manufacturers of our food supply, and especially the millers, would devote their energies to improving the public health and promoting happiness in every home by the production of whole ground, unbolted cereal flours and meals." WHOLE FOOD VITAMINS: Ascorbic Acid is Not Vitamin C By Dr. Tim O'Shea

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HARVEY W. WILEY, MD

Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, 1911, investigating charges preferred against Dr. H. W. Wiley, Representative Ralph W. Moss, presiding. At the right of Mr. Moss are the three of the Democratic members of the Committee, namely, Hon. J.C. Floyd, Hon. R.L. Doughton, Hon. D.H. Mays; Henry E. Davis and Hon. W.P. Hepburn, attorneys for Dr. Wiley. On the left of Mr. Moss are the Hon. Edwin W. Higgins, Hon. Burton L. French, and the Hon. Charles H. Sloan, the stenographer and H.W. Wiley.

GROUP AT SECOND DENVER CONVENTION IN 1925
Left to right: Dr. W. D. Bigelow, my first assistant in the Bureau of Chemistry; Dr. Harry E. Barnard, formerly Food Commissioner of Indiana; Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, former Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry; Mr. I. L. Miller, present Food Commissioner of Indiana; Dr. Robert M. Allen, former Food Commissioner of Ken. tucky; Mr. W. C. Geagley, Sec.-Treas. Association of Dairy, Food and Drug Officials of the United States