Investigative journalist Samuel Hopkins Adams published “The Great American Fraud” in Collier’s Weekly, which exposed hazardous ingredients in medicine, along with false advertisements (Lerner 670). This gains public attention, especially from women who are against adding alcohol and other harmful substances into medicines (Lerner 670). Another journalist and author, Upton Sinclair published a book titled The Jungle, which focuses on the meatpacking industry in Chicago (Lerner 670; “Pure Food” 1082). Sinclair’s book depicts the meat industry “as dirty, disease-ridden, and rife with corruption. Farmers and plant owners bribed…inspectors to let diseased animals pass” (Lerner 670). The book also mentions that workers sick with tuberculosis worked
