30 jun 1906 año - First food laws submitted to congress, FDA, Pure Food and Drug Act, and The inspection of meat was established on june 30, 1906

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*Since 1879, nearly 100 bills had been introduced in Congress to regulate food and drugs; on 30 June 1906 President Roosevelt signed the Food and Drugs Act, known simply as the Wiley Act, a pillar of the Progressive era. The basis of the law rested on the regulation of product labeling rather than pre-market approval.

*The Food and Drug Administration is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments

*The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

*Provisions. The FMIA mandated the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection of meat processing plants that conducted business across state lines. The Pure Food and Drug Act, enacted on June 30 in 1906, also gave the government broad jurisdiction over food in interstate commerce.

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