food and drug safety powerpoint
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By: Julia Willis4th Block
Laws to regulate food and drug purity
• Urgent in late 19th century
• Substances like…
–Cocaine and heroin were commonlyadded to medical elixirs.
Upton Sinclair
• Wrote the novel, The Jungle (Book
that..)
– Exposed the unsanitary conditions of
the meatpacking industry and led to
passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
• “There would be meat that fell on the
floor into dirt, meat stored into piles in
rooms where water would drip from the
ceiling onto it.”
1906
• Prohibited interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated..
Food
Drinks
Drugs
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