Today in FDA History

March 15, 1912

Dr. Harvey W. Wiley resigns as chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Chemistry, the federal agency that eventually became the FDA. Wiley had been serving as chief chemist since 1883. Wiley's crusade for stronger national food and drug regulation earned him the title "The Father of the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act." After leaving the bureau, Wiley continued serving the American public as director of the laboratories of Good Housekeeping Magazine, where he established the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.

In 2002, Congress designated the building housing the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition's new state-of-the-art laboratories and offices in College Park, Md., as the "Harvey W. Wiley Federal Building" in honor of the agency's first leader.

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