The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum was an excellent book, though the topic is infuriating. It covers the history around attempts to get food safety legislation passed in the US in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century, particularly a central figure in a department that latter became the FDA. If you remember learning about Upton Sinclair and the meatpacking industry horrors of that era, that’s covered here, but there’s a much broader look that covers all sorts of OTHER food safety nightmares.

Disappointing how many of the food manufacturers named as being phenomenal assholes still exist today…

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-poison-squad-one-chemist-s-single-minded-crusade-for-food-safety-at-the-turn-of-the-twentieth-century-deborah-blum/

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