Comment définir les produits alimentaires ? L'élaboration des références pour l'application de la loi du 1er août 1905 entre expertise et consensus professionnel
Histoire, économie et société, 2006
At the beginning of the 20th century, thefrench "pure food" debate ruled out the americ... more At the beginning of the 20th century, thefrench "pure food" debate ruled out the american way of standards promoted by Harvey Wiley. The law, adopted on the 1st of august 1905, and still the basis of commercial regulation, gave extended reglementary power to an ad hoc administration but denied the ability of science, and especially chemistry, to enact definitions of goods. These remained a matter of merchants and producers and a process had to be settled to produce global consensus. It involved international conferences that settled, in 1908-1909, the very first codex alimentarius. It also strengthened market structures that were to last for the whole century.
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