Food Safety and Inspection Service: Difference between revisions

The FSIS's parent organization, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was founded in 1862 by President [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/informational/aboutfsis/history |title=FSIS History |publisher=Fsis.usda.gov |date = May 3, 2012 |access-date = December 8, 2019}}</ref> [[Harvey Washington Wiley|Harvey W. Wiley, M.D]], who was appointed to the position of chief chemist at the USDA in 1883 devoted his career to the struggle against foodborne illnesses, by among other things campaigning for the [[Pure Food and Drug Act]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/informational/aboutfsis/history |title=FSIS History |publisher=Fsis.usda.gov |date=May 3, 2012 |access-date=December 8, 2019}}</ref> It would however take effect until 1905, the technologically enabled rapid growth of the [[meat industry]] and the publication of [[The Jungle]], which detailed the meat industry and its working conditions, for the act to pass. The Pure Food and Drug Act’s main purpose lay in the banning of foreign and interstate traffic of adulterated and mislabelled food and its direction of the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry to inspect food products and refer offenders to the prosecution.  It also constituted a major step towards the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fdas-evolving-regulatory-powers/part-i-1906-food-and-drugs-act-and-its-enforcement |title=Part I: The 1906 Food and Drugs Act and Its Enforcement|publisher=fda.gov/|date=April 24, 2019 |access-date=December 8, 2019}}</ref> The [[Federal Meat Inspection Act]] (FMIA), which prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products and laid out that the slaughter of animals with the purpose of meat produce had to take place under certain sanitary conditions, was passed on the same day.