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The chemistry of fear : Harvey Wiley's fight for pure food / Jonathan Rees.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rees, Jonathan, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wiley, Harvey Washington, 1844-1930.
- Wiley, Harvey Washington.
- Food--United States--Safety measures.
- Food.
- Food additives--Safety regulations--United States--History.
- Food additives.
- Food supply--United States.
- Food supply.
- Food additives--Safety regulations.
- History.
- Industrial safety.
- United States.
- Food--Safety measures.
- Genre:
- History.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Harvey Wiley spent most of his professional life advocating for food free of adulterants and preservatives. He was a proponent of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, and he ran the Division (later Bureau) of Chemistry at the US Department of Agriculture from 1883 to 1912. He gained fame for the so-called Poison Squad experiments-in which Wiley's own employees at the USDA consumed food mixed with additives and were studied for their body chemistry. In this biography, Jonathan Rees examines Wiley's many and varied conflicts over food safety"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Indiana
- ch. Two Honey
- ch. Three Sugar Beets
- ch. Four Adulterated Food
- ch. Five Meat
- ch. Six Pure Food
- ch. Seven Whiskey
- ch. Eight Enforcement
- ch. Nine Saccharin And Ketchup
- ch. Ten Drugs
- ch. Eleven Bleached Flour And Baking Powder
- ch. Twelve Coca-Cola
- ch. Thirteen Resignation
- ch. Fourteen The Good Housekeeping Years.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781421439952
- 1421439956
- OCLC:
- 1158507227
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