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- Microplastic bits in food we eat from packaging an it sitting in the sun.
- Toxic chemicals in our drinking water

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Back then there was one main problem with food contamination. Now that one problem sprouted into more than just one like now there's different problems with the foods with plastic and contamination in water too.

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Back then there was just individual people that tried to help out with the issue doing things to fix it. Now there are groups of people trying to do things to fix the issues.

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Back then they only had a solution to help the people when they got sick and saying something to let people know that their sanitation was bad. Now they are actually trying to fix the problems like making changes with the packages they're using but also still letting people know what's going on like what's in people's water.

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Food contamination-
in the early 1900s you couldn't tell if the food you were eating was contaminated or if the medicines you took were safe to take.

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Upton Sinclair- he wrote a novel called the jungle exposing  the lack of safety and sanitation for workers in the meatpacking industry.
Alice Hamilton-  she was a doctor who helped the factory workers.
Lillian Wald - she started the visiting nurse program

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The FDA - tries to fix the food problems by testing food for chemicals making sure the food is safe.

EPA -try to make people aware of whats in our water

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The visiting nurse program- The program consisted of sending nurses to people who were too sick or poor to go to a hospital.

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For the micro plastic solutions they make Eco friendly packaging and they also make glass and steel water bottles.

For the chemicals in water solutions the EPA set new limits called maximum contaminant levels. This was to let people know what PFA's also known as "forever chemicals" are in our water and also lets the water treatment facility know they need to get this chemical out of the water.