Trivia: What book by Upton Sinclair essentially created the FDA?
Oil!
The Jungle
The Shame of the Cities
How the Other Half Lives
The correct answer is The Jungle
So why is this answer correct? : Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel “The Jungle” exposes the grimy underbelly of the meatpacking industry in Chicago. Although Sinclair wanted to highlight the plight of immigrants, readers perked up at the book’s descriptions of the meat industry’s unsanitary practices. Uproar over “The Jungle” led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1907, which eventually led to the establishment of the modern FDA.