Secondary corroboration for the existing rectifier-authenticity Claim. Legal details and terminology should remain anchored in the stronger historical source already connected.
A biographical entry linking public chemistry, labeling conflict, and product identity.
The Harvey Wiley entry connects federal anti-adulteration work and early whiskey-aging research to the Pure Food and Drug Act dispute over whether products combining aged whiskey with neutral spirit could be called whiskey; the compromise helped preserve a distinct straight-whiskey category.
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Wiley, Harvey W.
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