Food
and drug act
Between
the dates of 1898 and 1899, Solders of the Spanish American war where dying
from poorly preserved meat. A group of about 12 people all got together to come
up with a solution, basically they were used as lab rats. They all agreed to
eat preservatives of the time period suck as formaldehyde. This group of people
was known as the “Poison Squad”. Directed by the god father of the food and drug
act Dr. Harvey Wiley.
Children
in St. Lewis, and Camden in 1901 where dying from tainted vaccines. Which cause
the drug part of food and drug act to perspire. In February of 1906 there was
Upton Sinclair publishes, a company that will package the meat. And June 30 of
1906, Theodor Roosevelt passed the food and drug act. Also passed the meat
inspection act.
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