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Pure Food and Drug Act
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- Before the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was passed, the conditions in food processing plants were primitive. Did you or any of your family experience these products first hand? What were the results? Did you ever get sick because of poor quality?
- There were many debates over the Pure Food and Drug Act. Were you or any of your family members interested in the politics of the act? What was your role or position?
- The first Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906. What were people's reactions to this? Were they relieved, angry, or upset? What was your reaction? Did this act give you more confidence in the food supply?
- Did the Pure Food and Drug Act directly affect you or your family? In what ways? As a worker or as a consumer?
- In 1938 the Act was revised to include cosmetics, thus becoming the Pure Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. What did you and those around you think about this? In what ways did it affect you?
- Were you involved in a business that the Act directly affected, or as a consumer, how did you feel you were affected by this Act?
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