History of Food Safety(Meat and Poultry Inspection) in the US.

This presentation will provide a history of meat and poultry inspection in the United States. Beginning with the Meat Inspection Act of 1906, the presentation will review the events that led to the passage of this law, including the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and will review how meat inspection has developed over the course of the 20th and into the 21st Centuries. It will consider the effects of the Jack-in-the-Box outbreak in 1993 and the significance of the adoption of the Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) rule in 1996. In addition, the talk will address the factors that led to the passage of the Poultry Products Inspection Act in 1957. Finally, the presentation will consider FSIS's recently published proposal to make the biggest change in poultry inspection since the Eisenhower Administration.