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