• The horrifying conditions in America’s meat-processing industry.

• Stockyards and slaughterhouses

• “The dangerous and oppressive working conditions endured by what Sinclair called “the wage slaves of the Beef Trust.”

• “Food and milk tainted with formaldehyde killed 400,000 American infants a year.”

• He spoke about working conditions in the meatpacking industry and sparked the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.

• “The vivid, nauseating descriptions lent momentum to the pure food movement, which had begun in the 1880s with the work of food scientists such as U.S. Department of Agriculture chief chemist Harvey Washington Wiley.”

• “Investigative journalists exposed rampant packaging fraud.”

• “Dr. Alice Hamilton saved countless workers’ lives as a pioneer in industrial health and safety.”

Lillian Wald:

• She helped to bring health care to the residents of New York’s Lower East Side.

• “Wald fought for public health care, women’s rights, and children’s rights while running the Henry Street Settlement.”

• “..protects the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under its jurisdiction, including products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children.”

  
  

FDA:

• “..protects public health by regulating human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, electronic radiation emitting products, and tobacco products.”