June 30 in American History
Spurred partly by Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, which exposed filthy conditions in the meatpacking industry, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the law banning tainted food and mislabeled drugs — and creating the agency that became the FDA. For the first time, Americans had federal assurance that their food and medicine were what the label claimed.
In 1906: the Pure Food and Drug Act. Spurred partly by Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, which exposed filthy conditions in the meatpacking industry, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the law banning tainted food and mislabeled drugs — and creating the agency that became the FDA.
Spurred partly by Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, which exposed filthy conditions in the meatpacking industry, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the law banning tainted food and mislabeled drugs — and creating the agency that became the FDA. For the first time, Americans had federal assurance that their food and medicine were what the label claimed.
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