The effort to enact it was led by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, head of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture.
The effort to enact it was led by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, head of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture. Wiley enlisted the support of the American Medical Association, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and other consumer groups.  Impetus for this act came following a scandal during the Spanish-American War in 1898 involving an "embalmed" substance, this event, plus a series of articles by Charles Edward Russell and Samuel Hopkins Adams, which slammed, respectively the Beef Trust and patent medicine industry, FTP, spurred the passing of this act, which was most famously inspired by Upton Sinclair's unappetizing novel The Jungle, in January 1906.
The effort to enact it was led by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, head of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture.
Pure Food and Drug Act