On 1/30/2020 5:53 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> Did anyone here see the PBS show about "The Poison Squad"?Â* Just aired a
> couple of nights ago (locally).
>
> It's a documentary about the man who first demanded food safety tests
> and food labelling.Â* Trying to promote safe food.Â* Back around the turn
> of the last century.
>
> It was extremely interesting.Â* Also alarming what sort of things were
> added to food before anyone had any idea what affects it might have.
>
> https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...sly-experiment
>
>
> "1883, conducted a rather grisly experiment on human volunteers to help
> make food safer for consumers €” and his work still echoes on today.
>
> Still quoting "Wiley was an indefatigable activist for food safety
> regulations during a time when the food industry was organizing and
> adding substances to food without any oversight, using its might to put
> profits before people. But Wiley and his small band of chemists began
> methodically testing suspected harmful additives and revealing the
> effects of these dangerous compounds to the government and public."
>
> I don't know about you, but I'd rather be able to read a label and know
> there is no alum mixed in with my flour.
>
> Jill
Did not see it but will keep an eye out for it when they repeat. It was
on at 3 AM today.