1/24/2018 The Poison Squad The Poison Squad 1898-Wiley established a committee Poison squad brought the food additives on food standards for food purity issues to the American consumers These standards later became 1905-Pres.Roosevelt recommended a law mandatory law for many states be passed to regulate interstate commerce of adulterated and misbranded 1902-Biologics Control Act was foods,drinks,and drugs introduced to ensure serums and 1906-Pure Food and Drug Act was passed vaccines were safe Summary video on the poison squad Wiley report of their findings was also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJsQ critical of food preparation industry NGw17kk but Congress ignored these findings "The Jungle The Jungle by Upton Sinclair excerpts 1905 -"Sinclair spent seven "There was never the least attention paid to what was weeks gathering information while working incognito in the m23aa82g9e9o meatpacking plants of the th Chicago stockyards." Fueled the efforts for the enactment of the Pure Food and Summary video of The Jungle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdK9Rv2xvig Drug Act Exposed unsanitary conditions in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnYr-RmAD4 the Chicago meat packing industry 0 1/24/2018 10 • 1898 – Wiley established a committee on food standards for food purity • These standards later became mandatory law for many states • 1902 – Biologics Control Act was introduced to ensure serums and vaccines were safe • Wiley report of their findings was also critical of food preparation industry but Congress ignored these findings The Poison Squad • Poison squad brought the food additives issues to the American consumers • 1905 – Pres. Roosevelt recommended a law be passed to regulate interstate commerce of adulterated and misbranded foods, drinks, and drugs • 1906 - Pure Food and Drug Act was passed • Summary video on the poison squad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJsQ NGw17kk The Poison Squad “The Jungle “ by Upton Sinclair • 1905 - "Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards." • Fueled the efforts for the enactment of the Pure Food and Drug Act • Exposed unsanitary conditions in the Chicago meat packing industry "There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; there would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was moldy and white--it would be dosed with borax and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption.” Summary video of The Jungle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdK9Rv2xvig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnYr-RmAD4 The Jungle excerpts