105: The History of Food Safety Part 2: Fraud, Food Adulteration, and Harvey Washington Wiley

Hello! In This Weeks continuation of the History of Food Safety, we lay the ground work for the work of one man, Harvey Washington Wiley, and his work to introduce a food safety bill and educate the American People on what exactly they were eating.

Harvey was a chemist with a special interest in food Safety and through his work, we were able to discover just how adultered the food being produced and sold in the US actually was.

Make sure to check out Part One where we go into further detail on Milk Safety, Germ Theory, and Pasteurization: https://www.itsahistorypodcast.com/the-history-of-food-safety-part-1-historic-methods-of-food-safety-germ-theory-and-pasteurization/

Today's episode relies heavily on the book The Poison Squad: One Chemist Single Minded Crusade for Food Safety At the Turn of the Twentieth Century written by Debrah Blum.

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