![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “It may not always serve us to cast a rosy glow over the past or even over its heroes,” Blum writes. Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department in 1883, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud, even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, “The Poison Squad.” The book is the 2019-20 Go Big Read selection. And it’s thanks in large part to him and a little known group of research volunteers that the food we eat is safe.ĭeborah Blum’s “The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” pays tribute to Wiley’s work and his legacy. But a century ago, he was dubbed the father of the pure food and drug act. Harvey Washington Wiley may not be a household name today. ![]()
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