But many factories that processed and packaged foods for often serface unsanitary. In 1906 the writer Upton Sinclair published the jungle a novel about the American meat packing industry. Sinclair's novel follows the story of a young immigrant working at a meat packing plant in squalid conditions. It is based on Sinclair's own experiences. When he spent seven weeks investigating Chicago's Meatpacking plants. While his main target was the industry's appalling labor conditions people one most outraged by the film contamination in American food that his novel exposed. Although the US Department of Agriculture had been established in 1862 on his publication that jungle cause succession normal of was that the congress passed legislation that included the meat Inspection act and the food and drugs of 1906. And the United States Department of Agriculture inspectors were put in every Meat Plant in the country. Where they remain today. Many historians and scientists consider this legislation the beginning of laws that ensure the safety present food supply. This also let to the establishment of what we now know as the food and drug administration. The FDA along with USDA and several other. Government agencies is responsible for protecting the Public Health by ensuring the safety of the Nations human and animal food supply and a range of human and veterinary drugs.