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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury

By Deborah Blum
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Unabridged — 11 hours, 5 minutes
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By Deborah Blum
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Unabridged — 11 hours, 5 minutes
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A New York Times Notable Book

The inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad.

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 embalm corpses. Decaying meat was pre...