Pure+Food+&+Drug+Act

excerpt from the doc: What gave it the name "Progressive" was that new laws were passed. Under Theodore Roosevelt, there was the Meat Inspection Act, the Hepburn Act to regulate railroads and pipelines, a Pure Food and Drug Act.**
 * What was clear in this period to blacks, to feminists, to labor organizers and socialists, was that they could not count on the national government. True, this was the "Progressive Period," the start of the Age of Reform; but it was a reluctant reform, aimed at quieting the popular risings, not making fundamental changes.

it's an act preventing from what happened like the situation in Upton Sinclair's the Jungle. Federal law that inspects and monitors over food manufacturing and transportation that cleanliness is maintained so it's edible.

Law that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of food and patented medicine containing harmful ingredients; also required food and medicine containers to carry ingredient labels