Upton Sinclair meatpacking industry exposure and Food and Drug Act

Brief historical anchor for FDA authority — Upton Sinclair's 1906 book about the meat industry led to the Food and Drug Act. Used to root current FDA Good Manufacturing Practice regulation in a century-old legislative response.

It's Title 21 CFR — Code of Federal Regulations, the law Congress writes. In the early 90s, the World Health Organization followed suit in 1992, and the EU followed in 2013 for drug quality assurance. It's not just drugs — it's food quality too, all the FDA. All of this actually went back to 1906. Upton Sinclair wrote a book about how bad the meat producing industry was, and got Congress to write the Food and Drug Act of 1906.