Meat inspection act by rosalba and maria

1. Meat Inspection Act Maria and Rosalba

2. Introduction How did the Meat Inspection Act affect the Meat Industry?

3. Who The original Act in 1906 was authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture. It authorized the condemn of any meat product found unfit for human consumption. It also banned European nations to pork trade. Upton Sinclair also played a part in the act. After writing “The Jungle” The book was confirmed in the Neil Reynolds report, commissioned by Theodore Roosevelt.

4. What The Federal Meat inspection act (a.k.a : FMIA) is a United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat produces are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. This law also required imported meats to which also had to be inspected by foreign standards.

5. When The Federal Meat Inspection act was created in 1906. It was created after Roosevelt had read “The Jungle” and got a sense of what the American people were really eating.

6. Where The act was enforced all over America The act also affected other countries by requiring them to inspect meat produces before shipping them to the U.S. Also by not allowing pork trade.

7. Why To protect the American people from infected meat and diseases. To protect the American diet.

8. How By requiring all meat to be inspected for quality. All imported meats needed to be inspected before entering the United States.

9. Conclusion It affected it by decreasing the amount of meat sold. It made it illegal for other countries to partake in pork trade.

10. Works cited Meatsafty.org www.fda.gov