In this dynamic lecture filled with images and awesome videos, food policy professor and author Dr. Darin Detwiler explains how multiple economic, political, and social factors throughout the 20th century impacted consumers’ relationship with food and nutrition. 

In this dynamic lecture filled with images and awesome videos, food policy professor and author Dr. Darin Detwiler explains how multiple factors throughout the 20th century impacted consumers’ relationship with food and nutrition. 

he story of food safety can be found before the science and regulations in the historic changes in the relationship between the land, the economy, society, and the federal government during the first half of the 20th century.

In this video, food policy expert Dr. Darin Detwiler sits down with Dr. David McSwane, Executive Director of the Conference for Food Protection (CFP).  Since 1971, CFP has united government, industry, academia, and consumers to collaboratively address emerging food safety challenges.

In this compelling 10-minute lecture, food policy expert Dr. Darin Detwiler uncovers how newspapers, muckrakers, and investigative reporting at the turn of the 20th century helped transform the way America thinks about food — and why their legacy still shapes the industry today.