Phoebe Judge
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In 1904, the writer Upton Sinclair traveled to Chicago.
He was planning to start work on a novel that would later be called The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair's publisher thought the descriptions of how the meat was processed were so disgusting that they canceled his contract.
When he finally found a new publisher, they decided to send two fact-checkers to Chicago to make sure that what he was describing in the book was real.
One part of the published section of the report describes sick people spitting on the, quote, spongy wooden floors of the dark workrooms from which falling scraps of meat are later shoveled up to be later converted into food products.
It was called the Pure Food and Drug Act, but it was known as Dr. Wiley's Law.
Under the Pure Food and Drug Act, foods couldn't be labeled or branded to mislead the customer, or contain added ingredients which were poisonous or harmful, or have substances mixed in them that reduce their quality or strength, or be colored or mixed or coated to disguise damage or inferiority.