There really was not much evidence that expressed the publics concerns on foods and drugs. But in 1902, Wiley made a “Poison Squad.” There were many volunteers that confined themselves to specific diets that ranges from different food preservatives, doing this for about six months. “He found that food additives like boric acid, salicylic acid, benzoate of soda, and formaldehyde were all harmful to the volunteers’ metabolism, digestion or health.” Obviously in this day and age, this kind of testing would be completely unethical. But thanks to Wiley for testing, experimenting, and concluding the things that were harmful to our health, that we now are not eating things with toxics inside. Back in the day before these health related acts were passed,…show more content… Many could have been eating foods with cleaning supplies, or formaldehyde in them, and they had not one bit of a clue of it. It is hard to imagine things like this happening these days, because we do not have to be concerned, due to inspections that are done for sanitary, and protection reasons. “Public support for such a law grew steadily, thanks to a series of reports on harmful and unsanitary meatpacking processes that were published in muckraking magazines and in Upton Sinclair’s 1906 exposure The Jungle.” The Jungle, a book by Upton Sinclair in which he revealed the unsanitary and health violations of the meatpacking industry, as he was a muckraker, sharing of the corruptions of business and the government brought an awareness of the unknown. Just as there were rats all over the industry, they would put poison, to help kill them. But this not only affected the rats, but also the meat, as the dead rats and poison were also being scooped into the meat. This not only was aimed at the meat, but also the Pure Food and Drug Act, as chemicals were put into the meat without taking preliminary cautions, without employed laws at the time before the early nineteen
