On the Fact that (According to Famed Historian, Gustavus Weber) the 1848 Drug Importation Act Failed to Authorize the Department of Agriculture to Protect the People From Domestic Food Adulteration While it DID Require a Fair Amount of Said Protection in the Case of Imported Food Products

This law obviously had nothing to do with food and drug safety and everything to do with crony capitalism and protectionism.......A lot like today's laws, in other words.