<P> The 1906 statute regulated food and drugs moving in interstate commerce and forbade the manufacture , sale , or transportation of poisonous patent medicines . The Act arose due to public education and exposés from public interest guardians such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams , social activist Florence Kelley , researcher Harvey W. Wiley , and President Theodore Roosevelt . </P>
<P> The 1906 statute regulated food and drugs moving in interstate commerce and forbade the manufacture , sale , or transportation of poisonous patent medicines . The Act arose due to public education and exposés from public interest guardians such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams , social activist Florence Kelley , researcher Harvey W. Wiley , and President Theodore Roosevelt . </P>
what led to the passage by congress of the pure food and drug act
what led to the passage by congress of the pure food and drug act
public education and exposés from public interest guardians such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams , social activist Florence Kelley , researcher Harvey W. Wiley , and President Theodore Roosevelt
public education and exposés from public interest guardians such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams , social activist Florence Kelley , researcher Harvey W. Wiley , and President Theodore Roosevelt