Question

What was the purpose of the Pure Food and Drug Act? @Sarcasmus

Answer 1

to regulate the safety, labeling, and interstate shipment of food and medicine
to allow the government to take over production of food and drugs
to inspire Upton Sinclair to write his muckraking novel The Jungle
to provide federal inspectors in meatpacking plants

Answer 2

The Pure Food and Drug Act is a federal law that provided the inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.