Read the excerpt from a letter from Upton Sinclair to President Theodore Roosevelt. There are a hundred streets and avenues by which diseased meat can enter the city and be put on sale in the markets. The public has made no effort to find out and it is left to the men who deal in this merchandise to dump what they please into the stomachs of the blissfully ignorant public. Neither do any of us know how much disease and suffering this food causes.

What was a benefit of the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?

The benefit of the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was that it ensure the safety of consumers by helping to reduce the importation and consumption of foreign and interstate foods and drugs that are adulterated and not properly labelled.

Explanation:

The Pure Food and Drug Act was signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on the 30th of June in the year 1906. It was a law that was aimed at protecting consumers based on the foods they consumed and drugs that they used.

The Pure Food and Drug Act started out by ensuring that foods and drugs were properly labelled, this included the name of the product, the manufacturers, ingredients, expiry and manufacturing date e.t.c

The Pure Food and Drug Act also helped in preventing, prohibiting and banning the sale and consumption of foods and drugs that contained substances or ingredients that compromised the safety of the products thereby resulting in products with lower quality and a very harmful content.

The Pure Food and Drug Act ensured that only quality products were permitted for sale to consumers. This act also regulates the quantity of particular ingredients that are used in food and drug production. For example, Caffeine, Sweeteners( e.g Aspartame e.t.c). It also ensured that drugs used for treatment of people attains the set standard of purity levels and does not fall below these purity levels.

The benefit of the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was that it ensure the safety of consumers by helping to reduce the importation and consumption of foreign and interstate foods and drugs that are adulterated and not properly labelled.

the answer is definitley b!

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