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Food safety: Protections slipping

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From: Charleston Gazette
Date: 20061215
Author:Gzedit

NOVELIST Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle 100 years ago. The popular novel's major purpose was to expose oppressive working conditions suffered by immigrant workers in Chicago's meatpacking plants. It also described filth, diseases and pollutants that contaminated the meat products produced, packaged and sent to market.

That same year, in 1906, Congress passed and President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act - the first such laws in U.S. history.

A few years later, Sinclair wrote, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the ...

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