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Pure Food and Drug Act

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The Pure Food and Drug Act paved the way for the FDA

The United States Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 provided for federal inspection of meat products, and forbade manufacture sale or transport of adulterated food products or poisonous patent medicines.

See also: Meat Inspection Act