Nutrition Policy in Canada, 1870-1939Nutrition Policy in Canada, 1870 1939 examines the beginnings and early evolution of nutrition policy developments, mainly at the federal level, from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War. It outlines the development of a national system of food safety and surveillance, the federal governments early policy focus on infant feeding, and the factors leading to the establishment of a national dietary standard. Aleck Ostry