A century of ensuring safe foods and cosmetics.

From: FDA Consumer | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Prompted by increasing concerns over the use of untested chemicals as food preservatives, Harvey Wiley, M.D., chief chemist of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Chemistry, set out to investigate whether such preservatives should be used in food and which quantities were safe. Congress appropriated funds for the studies in 1902.

Wiley recruited volunteers, which the press soon dubbed the Poison Squad. The young men ate foods containing measured amounts of borax, salicylic acid, formaldehyde, and other chemical preservatives. He stopped each unconventional experiment after ...

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