This act was created to prevent the manufacture, sale and transportation of misbranded, poisonous and harmful food, drugs, medicines and liquors. This act entrusted manufacturer or distributors with the responsibility of appropriately testing all foods and drugs that were going to be consumed by a human. Under this act, prescriptions were only given to a patient by a licensed physicians. Prescription also had to have warning labels that labeled the possible side effects of the drug. If a manufacturer or distributor did not meet these standards, they could possibly be prosecuted by the federal government. Theodore Roosevelt had passed this law in 1906. Roosevelt created this act based off the the muckraker reports of unsanitary meat packing plants, the multiple passages from Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle and the Neill-Reynolds report. The Neill-Reynolds report unveiled the limitations in preventing mislabeled meat from being
This act was created to prevent the manufacture, sale and transportation of misbranded, poisonous and harmful food, drugs, medicines and liquors. This act entrusted manufacturer or distributors with the responsibility of appropriately testing all foods and drugs that were going to be consumed by a human. Under this act, prescriptions were only given to a patient by a licensed physicians. Prescription also had to have warning labels that labeled the possible side effects of the drug. If a manufacturer or distributor did not meet these standards, they could possibly be prosecuted by the federal government. Theodore Roosevelt had passed this law in 1906. Roosevelt created this act based off the the muckraker reports of unsanitary meat packing plants, the multiple passages from Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle and the Neill-Reynolds report. The Neill-Reynolds report unveiled the limitations in preventing mislabeled meat from being