On 1/30/2020 10:05 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> 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.Â* It was
> on at 3 AM today.

Formaldehyde added to milk as a "preservative". Alum added to flour.
He set out to find out what people were actually eating and *publicize*.
Create labeling laws. Fascinating food history.

Jill