The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the TwentiethCentury

By Deborah Blum

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Published Sep 25, 2018

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Celphipod

Jan 24, 2026

9/10 stars

Its an informative book but wow is it disgusting how hard people did and still do fight for the right to poison consumers to save a few cents

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