The Pure Food & Drug Act was passed in June 1906 following this Upton Sinclair meatpacking industry expose
[DOC] [TLE] Food and Drug Act of 1906 facts, information, pictures ... [PAR] In 1905 Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which exposed practices in the Chicago 
meat-packing industry, sold 1 million copies in its first year after publication.