The Pure Food and Drug Act
"The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws enacted by the Federal Government in the twentieth century and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. Its main purpose was to ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products, and it directed the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and refer offenders to
prosecutors." -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
prosecutors." -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Pure Food and Drug Act, passed in 1906, aimed to regain the trust of consumers by requiring products to be labeled and prohibiting the exaggeration of the benefits of drugs, thus creating new regulations and standards for the products of the food and drug industries across America.
"Roosevelt signed both the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act into law on June 30, 1906. He described those two laws, together with a bill to regulate railroad rates, as marking “a noteworthy advance in the policy of securing Federal supervision and control over corporations.” Historians have agreed with Roosevelt’s analysis, citing the three bills passed in 1906 as major early steps in the development of federal regulation...
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...The modern Food and Drug Administration dates to the regulatory functions assigned to the Bureau of Chemistry of the Agriculture Department by the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. In 1938, Congress significantly expanded the regulatory functions of the 1906 law and extended FDA’s authority over processed foods. In 1990 Congress passed the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, which required food products, including processed meat, to provide basic nutritional information."
-www.gilderlehrman.org
-www.gilderlehrman.org
"A commonly said poem and phrase of this time was,
“Mary had a little lamb
And when she saw it sicken
She shipped it off to Packingtown
And now it's labeled chicken."
All joking aside, the government knew that this grand response required rules and regulations necessary to save the people from an over-powering food industry. The social push for regulation of food allowed for the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. - "Upton Sinclair's The Jungle: The Legal and Social Impacts of a Classic Novel" by Ashley McIntyre
“Mary had a little lamb
And when she saw it sicken
She shipped it off to Packingtown
And now it's labeled chicken."
All joking aside, the government knew that this grand response required rules and regulations necessary to save the people from an over-powering food industry. The social push for regulation of food allowed for the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. - "Upton Sinclair's The Jungle: The Legal and Social Impacts of a Classic Novel" by Ashley McIntyre
"Mary Had a Little Lamb Variants
Mary had a little lamb
you've heard this tale before
did you know she passed the plate
and had a little more?
In America, in the days when Chicago stockyards were first building a reputation as being fairly disgusting (early 20th century), people sang this:
Mary had a little lamb
when she saw it sicken
she sent it to chicago
and it came back labeled 'chicken.'"
-http://www.playgroundjungle.com
Mary had a little lamb
you've heard this tale before
did you know she passed the plate
and had a little more?
In America, in the days when Chicago stockyards were first building a reputation as being fairly disgusting (early 20th century), people sang this:
Mary had a little lamb
when she saw it sicken
she sent it to chicago
and it came back labeled 'chicken.'"
-http://www.playgroundjungle.com