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