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medical health pharmaceutical drugsWhat groups were most influential in passing the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Beside this, who supported the Pure Food and Drug Act?
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on the same day as the Federal Meat Inspection Act.
Consequently, why did business support the Pure Food and Drug Act?
The major goal of the Food and Drug Act was to prohibit foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food or drug products. It also directed the US Bureau of Chemistry to inspect products and required active ingredients to be on the label of drugs.
But it wasn't until the public outcry following the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle that Congress moved on legislation that would prevent “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs or medicines, and liquors.” The version of the bill which