Pure Food and Drug Act. ... Whenever I think of Teddy Roosevelt, I imagine a hyper-talkative exuberant extrovert. He was known as an environmentalist, historian, and writer, but sadly his ...

On June 30, 1906, former President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drug Act into law, establishing comprehensive government oversight surrounding harmful foods, drugs and medicines. This ...

The FDA Turns 100 One hundred years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drugs Act into law. That laid the groundwork for the nation's oldest consumer protection agency, the ...

Grove City College history professor Andrew Mitchell discussed Upton Sinclair's 1904 book, The Jungle and its impact on the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.

It was president Theodore Roosevelt who, in 1906, famously used the term “muckrakers” to disparage investigative journalists. Referencing John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress , Roosevelt described a ...

The exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the passage of the original Federal Food and Drugs Act, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 30, 1906. Summary Opening of Food ...

United States Food and Drug Administration Notes FDA No. FD191-5 The exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the passage of the original Federal Food and Drugs Act, signed into law by ...