USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Until then, the meat inspectors were doing a lousy job of maintaining hygienic conditions in these packinghouses. After the reforms, the conditions of these places became better due to the stricter regulations that followed. Thus, it can be said that Sinclair’s work played a prominent role in the Meat Inspection Act.

Detailed explanation-2: -"The Jungle” was influential in obtaining passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. Sinclair’s interests ranged over a wide variety of topics, in his many books and articles. He would receive a Pulitzer Prize for a later novel about Hitler’s rise to power.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel, The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.