RMC Dates

First meat inspection in France

1162

Columbus brought Spanish longhorns to West Indies

1493

Desoto brought pigs to Florida

1539

Lord Delaware brought cows, oxen, and goats

1610

William Pynchon nations first meat packer (pork in barrels)

1662

First public auction held at Brighton market

1742

Ben franklin, electrical stunning

1773

Uncle Sam Wilson provisioned troops with meat

1812

First meat packing plant in Cincinnati (porkopolis)

1818

First commercial meat canning in Boston

1821

McCormick invented the reaper

1831

USDA began

1862

Morrill Act started land grant colleges

1862

First refrigerated rail car patent

1867

Firs Oscar Mayer meat market in Chicago

1883

Hatch act established the state agriculture experiment stations

1887

1st meats course offered at university of Minnesota

1893

First college meat lab (univ of Minnesota)

1900

Nitrates used in meat curing

1900

The Jungle Upton Sinclair

1906

Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act

1906

Smith Lever Act, cooperative extension was designed as a partnership of the USDA

1914

Standards for meat quality developed

1916

Packers and stockyards

1921

National livestock and meat board founded

1922

Federal meat grading act

1925

Voluntary poultry inspection program for interstate and foreign commerce

1926

First meat judging contest (Nebraska won)

1926

Federal meat grading service began

1927

Grading for lamb and mutton began

1931

Standards for pork grades published

1931

Standards for pork grades made official

1933

SPAM introduced by hormel

1937

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act amends Pure Food and Drug Act

1938

First RMC

1948

Poultry products inspection Act

1957

Humane slaughter act

1958

Delaney clause

1958

First RMC held at a college campus (Michigan State)

1959

Talmadge-Aiken Act

1962

AMSA began

1964

Wholesome Meat Act

1967

Wholesome poultry products act

1968

First outstanding undergraduate awards given

1977

Humane methods slaughter act

1978

Certified angus beef began

1978

Meat import act

1979

Processed products inspection improvement act

1986

First case of BSE in Britain

1986

Beef check off program in effect

1986

USFA/APHIS bans import of ruminant animals from BSE countries

1989

Nutritional labeling and education act

1990

Jack in the box e.coli outbreak

1993

FDA bans use of ruminant products in livestock feeds

1997

Preempt introduced to poultry industry

1998

Country of origin labeling (COOL)

2002

First US BSE case

Dec 23, 2003

BSE case in 17 month old animal

June 24, 2005

COOL repealed

2015

Red meat class 2A processed meat class 1 carcinogen IRAC classification

2015

6th case of BSE United States

August 29, 2018

National Beef Tenderness Survey

1990, 1998, 2006, 2015

National beef quality audit

1991, 1995, 2000, 2016