U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for April 6

WASHINGTON, April 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

MILK INSPECTION

Profile America — Monday, April 6th. On this date in 1859, Massachusetts established the first state milk inspection program. An inspector of milk was appointed in August that year, operating from Boston, and whose primary efforts were to suppress so-called "swill milk," the poor, thin output of cows kept in unsanitary conditions and fed on distillery refuse. Currently, the Food and Drug Administration assists state and local dairy inspections. Every year, Americans consume an average of over 600 pounds of all manner of dairy products, including frozen treats. When "per capita" takes in upwards of 318 million consumers, it means the output of the nation's nearly 130,000 dairy workers ship nearly $112 billion worth of products annually. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.

Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 850
Swill milk:
http://books.google.com/books?id=qAe7eeLM6LUC&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq=Massachusetts+state+milk+inspection+1859&source=bl&ots=8UPuGda1l9&sig=rJjWL-i1cAB2Arx7wPyCyOxtUYw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i-NBUanyM-fE4APA6YGADQ&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Massachusetts%20state%20milk%20inspection%201859&f=false 
http://www.neha.org/pdf/articles/Brief_History_of_the_Sanitarian.pdf 
FDA: http://www.fda.gov/ForFederalStateandLocalOfficials/PartnershipsContracts/ucm303972.htm 
Dairy employees and value of shipments/NAICS 3115: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ASM_2013_31AS101&prodType=table

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button). 

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