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Teddy Roosevelt: “Traffic in food-stuffs which have been debased or adulterated so as to injure health or to deceive purchasers should be…”

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Traffic in food-stuffs which have been debased or adulterated so as to injure health or to deceive purchasers should be forbidden.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt called for a ban on the sale of harmful or misleading food products to protect consumers.

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