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Pure Food &Drug Act

Published on Nov 26, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

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PURE FOOD & DRUG ACT

(1906)
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STRUCTURE

  • Preventing the manufacture or sale of poisonous food, drugs,and liquors.
  • Started in Chicago's meat-packing industry
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POLITICAL LINKAGE

  • Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union
  • "Collier's" magazine on patent medicines and advertising fraud
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GOVERNMENT

  • Harvey Wiley led the USDA in passing the act
  • Meat inspections
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GOVERNMENT ACTION

  • Evolvement of additional acts
  • FDA (Food & Drug Administration)
  • Long-lasting and widespread impact
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BY:

OLIVIA MYERS & MACKENZY KASPER
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Olivia Myers