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One episode in Dr. Wiley’s crusade involved the seizure of three train containers full of bleached flour. He and other scientists knew that the bleaching process left nitrate residue in the flour. The case U.S. vs. Lexington Mill and Elevator Company went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the government and ordered the flour to be destroyed. However, USDA Secretary, James Wilson ignored the decision and allowed the bleached flour to be made available for consumer purchase. Many suspected a closed-door cash donation was made from the refining grain mills directly into Wilson’s back pocket. 
Dr. Wiley also filed a case against Coca-Cola to prevent the artificial beverage from being sold in multiple states. In his lawsuit, he stated that “No food in our country would have any trace of benzoic acid, sulfurous acid or sulfites or any alum or saccharin, save for medical purposes. No soft drink would contain caffeine or theobromine. No bleached flour would enter interstate commerce. Our foods and drugs would be wholly without any form of adulteration and misbranding. The health of our people would be vastly improved and the life greatly extended. The manufacturers of our food supply, and especially the millers, would devote their energies to improving the public health and promoting happiness in every home by the production of whole ground, unbolted cereals and meals. The term “unbolted” refers to grains that are unrefined and left whole to include the bran and germ with all their essential nutrients required by the human body.
From the beginning of his appointment into office, and through the enforcement of the Pure Food and Drugs Act, he had seen the fundamental principles of that act antagonized, stonewalled or discredited. He was forced to resign from his post on March 15, 1912. The Bureau of Chemistry ceased to exist and in 1931 it re-emerged as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). From here on out, the power shifted in favor of the commercial manufacturers of devitalized processed foods. Soon it would be against the law to claim that white flour was less nutritious than whole-wheat flour. Government institutions, originally formed to protect the public health and ensure that only safe and healthy foods entered the American food supply, became proponents of refined and chemical filled foodstuffs that inevitably lead to malnutrition, physical degeneration and chronic illness.
After Dr. Wiley resigned from the USDA, he took over the laboratories of Good Housekeeping magazine. There, he continued his work for 18 years to serve his fellow citizens by demanding truth in food labeling, and to support the nutrition pioneers D.C. Jarvis, Weston Price, Royal Lee and Melvin Page with his legal and political expertise.
Food for Thought: The chemical 4-Methylimidazole, used in popular cola soft drinks as a caramel coloring agent, is known to cause cancer. In March of 2012, USA Today reported that Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. are changing the way they make the caramel coloring used in their sodas as a result of a California law that mandates a cancer warning label on drinks containing a certain level of carcinogens. It is safer to consume whole foods that have not been artificially colored.
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