For hundreds of years, governments have had an interest in regulating food processing to ensure the safety and wholesomeness of the foods consumed by their citizens. The earliest known food law was written in Japan in AD 702. Today several United States government agencies carry out inspections and enforce a comprehensive system of regulations governing food processing, packaging, and distribution. However, this wasn’t always the case. At the turn of the century, America had numerous …showed first 75 words of 501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 501 total…Meat Inspection Act of 1906 benefited the American people. The act made meat consumption healthier, therefore, saving numerous lives. It even made working conditions more tolerable in the plants. Upton Sinclair couldn’t have fathomed that his book, The Jungle, would impact America’s meatpacking industry for decades. One book revealed to be an eye-opener to the public and the government, which finally terminated the conspiracy in the meatpacking plants with the Meat Inspection Act of 1906.