The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was an attempt to regulate the meat packing industry and assure consumers that the meat they were eating was safe. In short, this act mandated careful inspection of meat before consumption, established health standards for slaughterhouses and processing facilities, and required ongoing U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection of processing and meat packaging. However, the most important objectives set by the law are the prevention of the marketing and sale of adulterated or misbranded animals and products and the guarantee that meat and all its products are processed and prepared under adequate hygienic-sanitary conditions ( Reeves 35 ). Imported meat and its various products are no exception to these conditions; must be inspected 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 found to be in poor condition, unsound, or unfit for human consumption. In contrast to previous laws mandating meat inspection, imposed on European nations to ensure they prohibited the pork trade, this law strongly considered the American diet and was strongly motivated by its protection. It becomes mandatory to accurately set all labels on any type of food, although not all ingredients have been provided on the label (Nash 198). The momentum generated by the passage of the Meat Inspection Act helped secure the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, which had been stalled in Congress since 1905. With these two pieces of legislation, the federal government took important steps to ensure to the citizens that the food they ate met the minimum… half of the paper… .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 Sinclair's statements to be, if anything, less surprising than reality. Karolides recalls that the report revealed that the inspectors happened to “discover only filth, disease, intolerable stench and a worse than bestial contempt for basic decency.” The president prepared a message to Congress and, Karolides continues to illustrate, “within an hour, both the packers and the senators from the packinghouses would be pitted against each other” to pass a law regarding the government inspection of packing houses if the president withheld his message from Congress. Congress, which would support Sinclair's story. This put an end to attempts to discredit The Jungle (284).