The Pure Food and Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Regulate the purity and quality of food and drugs
Accurate labeling of all dangerous chemicals
Expansion of federal government as a means of improving the general welfare
Biologics Control Act (1902):restore public confidence and eliminate unfair
competition
“Muckrakers”
If meat packers were selling diseased meat, then why were there no revelations of unsanitary conditions in
the reports of government inspectors?
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
large-scale preservation of foodstuffs to be sold on a national market made it impossible for individuals to have personal
knowledge of consumer products
Regulate goods in interstate commerce
Federal regulators had to conduct long, complex proceedings to establish standards
Important landmark in the movement toward consumers’ rights
