Progessives and The Pure Food and Drug Act

There are many things that urged the implementation of this law. As mentioned earlier, Upton Sinclair's "Jungle" generally provided an interesting idea on how to handle food when officially issued. The novel was issued with other articles from 1905 to 1906, and it was called a "诽谤" article. These articles changed public opinion and supported the development of laws regulating the production of food and prescription drugs.

The first 'pure Food and Drug Act' was passed in 1906. Its purpose is to protect the masses from bad products and products of food identified as healthy without scientific support. The original "pure Food and Drugs Act" was amended in 1912, 1913 and 1923. A larger range of that range occurred in 1933. The latter succeeded in enhancing the general awareness about safety issues of inadvertent food preparation procedures and increased drug abuse rates. Patented drug addiction, whether accidental or conscious. A scientific aid from Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, principal chemist of the Ministry of Agriculture, published a study on the widespread use of harmful preservatives in the meat packaging industry. During the Spanish-American war, American soldiers used so-called "preserved beef" experience to drive momentum.

The Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 was an important part of the legislation of the progressive era signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on the day of the Federal Meat Testing Act. The US Department of Agriculture Chemistry Bureau was renamed the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1930. "Meat inspection method" was designated as so-called "food law". Safety and inspection services remain in the US Department of Agriculture. The first Federal law on food and medicine, the scope of the 1906 Act was limited to food and medicine in interstate trade. The law uses many precedents, provisions, legal examinations pioneered by each country, but the Federal Law defines 'error mark' and 'foreign object mixed' for the first time, penalties are imposed on each country.