Barkan I D
Am J Public Health. 1985 Jan;75(1):18-26. doi: 10.2105/ajph.75.1.18.
Ending its 27-year stranglehold on proposals for federal pure food and drug legislation, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act and its companion bill, the Meat Inspection Act, on June 30, 1906. An unprecedented convergence of consumer, scientific, and industrial support in 1906 prompted such action; most industries even planned for it, hoping regulation would restore the competitiveness of their products on weak foreign and domestic markets. The ways in which these interests converged, and the reasons therefore, suggest a change in their relationships to each other and with the federal government as America headed into the twentieth century.
1906年6月30日，国会结束了对联邦纯净食品和药品立法提案长达27年的压制，通过了《纯净食品和药品法》及其配套法案《肉类检验法》。1906年，消费者、科学界和工业界前所未有的共同支持促使了这一行动；大多数行业甚至为此做了规划，希望监管能恢复其产品在疲软的国内外市场上的竞争力。这些利益集团汇聚的方式及其原因，表明随着美国步入20世纪，它们彼此之间以及与联邦政府的关系发生了变化。
