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The Pure Food and Drug Act

This act was enacted on June 30, 1906. It was signed by Theodore Roosevelt. The act was one of the first created for consumer protection and later went on to become the Food and Drug Administration. A big influence for the act was Upton Sinclair's The Jungle which exposed the sanitation problems in the meatpacking industry. The act made sure that the food people bought was safe to eat and started making companies list ingredients. The companies also had to list ingredients that the PFDA thought were "dangerous or addictive." These included alcohol, morphine, cannabis, and opium.

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