1 janv. 1907 - Pure Food And Drug Act

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Thanks to the advent of patent medicines, dubious as they were, at the turn of the 1900s, the contents of what people used as cure-alls became questionable. By 1905, the presence of some very hazardous things was beginning to be publicized by folks like Samuel Hopkins Adams, even if it wasn’t regulated by any party with actual sway: tonics, liniments, and other similar products laced with mercury, opium, laxatives, cocaine, and all sorts of other strange things were prevalent in the market as the populace sought some fix for all that ailed them. It was because of this exact issue that Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drug Act into federal law in 1906, demanding the ingredients (and concentrations thereof, where relevant) of consumables be listed on the container, and that they be non-harmful to the human body. Equally inspiring for the bill, Upton Sinclair published The Jungle the same year, detailing the horrors of the meat industry at that point in time, including the unsafe work practices and unclean conditions, in graphic detail.

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