Food And Drug Act Of 1906 Essay

Ever since the 1900s the Federal Government has had several growths of expansion, some good and some bad, in this article the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 as well as the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 will be discussed and how it expanded government, and whether this growth of government was beneficial or not.
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which can be labeled as the founding date of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had the purpose to essentially “ban foreign and interstate traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products… (and) It required that active ingredients be placed on the label of a drug’s packaging and that drugs could not fall below purity levels established by the United States Pharmacopeia or the National Formulary” [1]. This meant that food and drug products couldn’t be lined with “mysterious” substances and everything had to be labelled according to what it contained. Also around the same time the Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) which “makes it a crime to adulterate or misbranded meat and meat products being sold as food, and

If not for the FMIA and FDA companies would not be held to a national level of quality assurance and overall surety of what’s in a product. It can be clearly seen that the growth of government in this case is a benefactor to the people and an overall good case of power as it helps to protect the people and not the producer. In these cases of the FMIA and FDA and through later programs resulting from these that the growth of government power is a good thing and a required thing as it protects the people from the inhumane tactics of a completely free market