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The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

by Deborah Blum

From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. “Milk” might contain formaldehyde, most often used to

Publisher

Penguin Books

Publication date

Sep 24, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9780143111122