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Early Federal Work on Honey: Although our chemical research program on honey has been underway for thirteen years, the history of chemical work on honey in this Department goes back at least seventy-five years. Probably the first sustained chemical work with honey in Government laboratories was that of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, of Pure Food fame. Dr. Wiley, as Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, directed a comprehensive program of analysis of common foods, the results of which were published as the celebrated Bulletin 13, Foods and Food Adulterants, beginning in 1887.
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