The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was an attempt to regulate the meatpacking industry and assure consumers that meat that 'they were eating was safe. In short, this law mandated careful inspection of meat before consumption, established health standards for slaughterhouses and processing plants, and required continued inspection by the United States Department of Agriculture of processing and l meat packaging. Yet the most important goals set by the law are to prevent the marketing and sale of animals and products adulterated or mislabeled as food, and to ensure that meat and all its products are processed and prepared under conditions adequate sanitation and hygiene (Reeves 35). Imported meat and its various products are no exception to these conditions; they must be inspected according to equivalent foreign standards. The original Meat Inspection Act of 1906 gave full authority to the Secretary of Agriculture to inspect and condemn any meat product deemed unfit, unhealthy, or unfit for human consumption. Unlike previous laws mandating meat inspections, which were imposed in favor of European nations to ensure they banned the pork trade, this law took strong account of the American diet and was strongly motivated to protect it. It becomes mandatory to accurately affix all labels to any type of food, even if not all ingredients are listed (Nash 198). The momentum generated by the passage of the Meat Inspection Act helped secure passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. Act, which had been blocked in Congress since 1905. With these two pieces of legislation, the federal government took important steps to assure the public that the food they ate met the paper's minimum standards..... .ds” ( Karolides 284). Sinclair gave specific examples of the atrocities committed in Packingtown. He also provided statements from known citizens who supported his position. President Roosevelt's inspectors found that Sinclair's statements were, on the contrary, less surprising than the reality. Karolides said the report revealed that inspectors "discovered nothing but filth, disease, intolerable stenches and a more than bestial disregard for basic decency." The president prepared a message to Congress and, as Karolides continues to illustrate, "within an hour, the packers and the packers' senators were racing against each other" to pass a law regarding government inspection in the packing plants if the president refused to deliver his message to Congress. Congress, which would confirm Sinclair's story. This ended attempts to discredit The Jungle (284).