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A TRIBUTE TO MINORITY GOVERNMENT: All-party passage of anti-trans-fat bill should add years to lives
From: CCPA Monitor
Date: 20050201
Author:Mortimore, George E
Ninety-nine years ago, Upton Sinclair shocked the world with his book The Jungle, about the Chicago slaughterhouses that were poisoning people with dirty and diseased meat.
The eyewitness scenes in the book were so disgusting that they put people off their dinner, turned some into vegetarians, and inspired President Theodore Roosevelt to prod Congress into creating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Government regulation and inspection of food, water and medicines in the United States, Canada, and other industrial nations continues to safeguard lives; but there are some serious gaps in ...
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