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The original 1906 Act authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to inspect and condemn any meat product found unfit for human consumption. [1] Unlike previous laws ordering meat inspections, which were enforced to assure European nations from banning pork trade, this law was strongly motivated to protect the American diet.
Meat-packing workers were exposed to dangerous chemicals and sharp machinery, and routinely suffered horrible injuries. Public pressure of the U.S. Congress led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act (both passed in 1906 on the same day) to ensure better regulations of the meat-packing industry.
In response to both The Jungle and the Neill-Reynolds report, Congress passed the Federal Meat Inspection Act,(21 USC 601 et seq.) in June 1906. The BAI was assigned the task of enforcing the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA). [1] The FMIA established four major sanitary requirements for the meat packing industry.
Upton Sinclair's polemical 1906 novel The Jungle revealed the alleged abuses of the meat production industry, and was a factor in the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) and the Federal Meat Inspection Act (1906). [2]
Laws prior tends to focus strictly on the prohibition of selling food from compromised sources, like the selling of meat from diseased or rotting animal corpse. [5] The Jungle, a novel published by Upton Sinclair in 1905, described the horrible working conditions in the meat-packing industry.
Included were examples of harmful drugs, including Banbar, a “cure” for diabetes, protected under the 1906 law, and Lash Lure, an eyelash dye that caused many of its women users to go blind. [22] Also legal under the old law was Radithor, a “radium-containing tonic that sentenced users to a slow and painful death.” This, along with the ...
Pages in category "1906 in American law" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Federal Meat Inspection Act; Foreign Dredge Act of 1906; H.
April 18 – The 1906 San Francisco earthquake (estimated magnitude 7.8) on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, California, killing at least 3,000 people, with 225,000–300,000 left homeless, and $350,000,000 in damages.