Public fury led to the an investigation and in 1906 Theodore Roosevelt signed the Federal
Meat Inspection Act.
The novelist meant to call attention to the working conditions of the immigrant but instead his work helped pressure the federal government into
the Meat Inspection Act and eventually the beginnings of the Food and Drug Administration in 1930.
The Meat Inspections Act requires every operator and every person engaged in the handling and slaughtering of a food animal in a registered establishment shall comply with Sections 61.1 to 80 of the Meat Inspection Regulations.