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The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) is an American law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions. [1]
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]
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 ...
Signed into law by President Warren G. Harding on August 15, 1921 The Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 ( 7 U.S.C. §§ 181-229b; P&S Act ) regulates meatpacking , livestock dealers, market agencies, live poultry dealers, and swine contractors to prohibit unfair or deceptive practices, giving undue preferences, apportioning supply ...
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.
The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.
The Wholesome Meat Act (also called "Equal To" law) is a United States federal law passed by the 90th United States Congressional session and enacted into law by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 15, 1967, [1] amending the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 which established a statute for federal meat inspection programs. [2]
In June 1906 this led to the passing of the Meat Inspection Act (controlling slaughterhouses) and the Food and Drug Act (looking at prohibition of additives). Whilst Roosevelt was keen to take sole credit, the popular press of the day called this Act Dr. Wiley's Law. The law allowed new chemicals to be added to the list of banned additives.