Meat counter at Emil Paust’s grocery, Louisville, circa 1905. Photo contributed to An Ohio River Portrait Collection by Carl W. Heick Jr. KHS Collections.
On March 15, 1898, the governor received from the General Assembly an act “regulating the manufacture and sale of food.” Thus, Kentucky became one of the national leaders in the pure-food movement. The act became law without the governor’s signature. Two years later and again in 1908 the law was strengthened. Under these acts, the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station received samples for testing, and as late as 1910, out of 3,410 food and drugs products it examined, 1,004 were found to be adulterated or mislabeled.
Meat counter at Emil Paust’s grocery, Louisville, circa 1905. Photo contributed to An Ohio River Portrait Collection by Carl W. Heick Jr. KHS Collections.
