Meat+Inspection+Act


 * __The Meat Inspection Act of 1906__**

At the turn of the century, a number of progressive reforms began to demand attention from the American public including Women's suffrage, civil service, and the meatpacking industry.



With the rapid expansion of the American industry, some things were put to the side in order to speed up the production process. One of these things was quality, and no other industry was this more prevalent in than the meat processing industry. So much so that Upton Sinclair wrote a novel, //The Jungle,// which featured the appalling descriptions of conditions in the meatpacking industry. The public outcry that the novel elicited led president Roosevelt to pass the Meat Inspection Act. The Federal Meat Inspection Act, passed in 1906, mandated the USDA inspection of meat processing plants that conducted business across state lines. This act also made sure that meat was thoroughly inspected before reaching its consumers. It resulted in the elimination of many diseases that were transferred through impure meat.