Peanut Butter Composition Saga

Boyce, Angie M. “” When Does It Stop Being Peanut Butter?”: FDA Food Standards of Identity, Ruth Desmond, and the Shifting Politics of Consumer Activism, 1960s–1970s.” Technology and Culture (2016): 54-79.

Why Midcentury Lawyers Spent 12 Years Arguing About Peanut Butter

Veteran of the Peanut-Butter War

Set of 3 podcasts about the infamous peanut butter regulations to supplement the introduction to admin law:

Part 1: The Peanut Butter Grandma Goes to Washington: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/s02-1-peanut-butter-grandma-goes-washington/ (Local file –

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Part 2: The Peanut Butter Wars: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/s02-2-peanut-butter-wars/ (Local File –

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Part 3: The Peanut Butter Verdict: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/s02-3-peanut-butter-verdict/ (Local file –

It gives us illustrations of rulemaking, commenting, formal adjudication, even judicial review, if you add supplementary reading about the story. It’s a little bit of everything.

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