caa a22 4500 38807034X CHVBK 20180307125146.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700022865 doi S0022050700022865 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700022865 Dupré Ruth Associate Professor at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal, 3000 Côte Sainte-Catherine, Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3T 2A7. E-mail: ruth.dupre@hec.ca. "If It's Yellow, It Must Be Butter”: Margarine Regulation in North America Since 1886 [Elektronische Daten] [Ruth Dupré] The first domestic food to be regulated by the federal government in the United States, margarine had a unique regulation history. No other food products has been so harshly treated throughtout the world. The American margarine policy up to the 1950s is generally considered remarkably severe. The Canadian policy was even more stringent and more enduring. The province of Quebec, and until very recently of Ontario, still prohibits the yellow coloring of margarine. This article compares the history of margarine regulation in the two countries and uses the interest-group theory of government to investigate why it was so stringent. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/2(1999-06), 353-371 0022-0507 59:2<353 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022865 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022865 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dupré Ruth Associate Professor at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal, 3000 Côte Sainte-Catherine, Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3T 2A7. E-mail: ruth.dupre@hec.ca NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/2(1999-06), 353-371 0022-0507 59:2<353 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge