USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In fact, the nauseating condition of the meat-packing industry that Upton Sinclair captured in The Jungle was the final precipitating force behind both a meat inspection law and a comprehensive food and drug law.

Detailed explanation-2: -Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws.

Detailed explanation-3: -Turning Point for Meat Inspection Sinclair urged President Theodore Roosevelt to require federal inspectors in meat-packing houses. The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) became law on the same day in 1906.