<P> The 1906 statute regulated food and drugs moving in interstate commerce and forbade the manufacture , sale , or transportation of poisonous patent medicines . The Act arose due to public education and exposés from public interest guardians such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams , social activist Florence Kelley , researcher Harvey W. Wiley , and President Theodore Roosevelt . </P>
what led to the passage by congress of the pure food and drug act
public education and exposés from public interest guardians such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams , social activist Florence Kelley , researcher Harvey W. Wiley , and President Theodore Roosevelt