overland candy thread 'cross the st

[m-mac]

Pardon me if I am breaking rules. Years to too much drama eventually lead a lapse in my membership across the way when they moved servers and wouldn't move my user id to transfer. Since I am more a grazer than a contributor, well, I do not post too much, so I do not know what are the rules for good behavior here. So, overland candy thread across the street. I love this kind of discussion and posting and sharing of information.

One of the posters observes that his wrapper has ingredients on it. There's a new law in 1938, the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, and if I recall my econ courses right, one application of this law was a regulation to require ingredient lists on packaging. Below, I link to the thread and another to the law.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=176750

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/ProductRegulation/ucm132818.htm

The implication may be that wrappers with no ingredients are pre-1938, while wrappers with ingredients may be post-1938. Would be interesting of this law could be better studied and then wrappers of other issues from this era examined for improved dating of product issues.

[sabrjay]

We have no problem with anyone mention other sites or bringing up topics from "across the street".

Certainly a very interesting topic. Having a food business myself, I can relate to the whole ingredients on the label thing.

[r337man]

I have the only known original box from this issue and several of the wrappers. This is a very neat observation. I will have to take a look at my wrappers.

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