![]() ![]() She first details the food industry before his work, when dangerous chemicals were used without regulation to cut, mimic, or enhance the flavor of foods with little regard for effects on human health. ![]() In The Poison Squad, author Deborah Blum tells the story of Harvey Washington Wiley and his dogged pursuit of government regulation for food safety and purity at the turn from the 19th to the 20th century ( Figure). Ketchup was a soup of “waste products from canners, like coal-tar colors or starch paste.” Thus was the status of the foods the US public ate during the late 1800s. ![]() The yellow coating of children’s candies often contained arsenic. Ground coffee was more than likely ground chicory. The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Centuryįormaldehyde made spoiled milk taste tolerable. ![]()
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