Author: Publisher:
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Category : Coloring matter
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Influence of Food Preservatives and Artificial Colors on Digestion and Health ...
Author: Pharma
Author: Gerald PosnerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501152033
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
"Exorbitant prices for lifesaving drugs, safety recalls affecting tens of millions of Americans, and soaring rates of addiction and overdose on prescription opioids have caused many to lose faith in pharmaceutical companies. Now, Americans are demanding national reckoning with a monolithic industry. In Pharma, award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Gerald Posner uncovers the real story of the Sacklers, the family that became one of America's wealthiest from the success of OxyContin, their blockbuster narcotic painkiller at the centure of the opioid crisis. The unexpected twists and turns of the Sakler family saga are told against the startling chronicle of a powerful industry that sits at the intersection of public health and profits. Pharma reveals how and why American drug companies have put earnings ahead of patients"--
Pure milk and the public health
Author: Archibald Robinson WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Monthly List of Publications
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Division of PublicationsPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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The Poison Squad
Author: Deborah BlumPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143111124
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book The inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad. From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Citizens--activists, journalists, scientists, and women's groups--began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, 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." Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as "Dr. Wiley's Law." Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely satisfying "David and Goliath" tale with righteous verve and style, driving home the moral imperative of confronting corporate greed and government corruption with a bracing clarity, which speaks resoundingly to the enormous social and political challenges we face today.
Preliminary Inventory
Author: Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Office of the U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
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Category : Agricultural chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Index to Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1901-1925
Author: Mary Alice BradleyPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 2704
Book Description
Annual Report of the Library Trustees and Librarian of the Town of Watertown for the Year Ending ...
Author: Watertown Free Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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