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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

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“The Poison Squad” (2020)

 

A two-hour episode of the award-winning series American Experience produced by PBS as a documentary film companion to this book. Interviews with experts include author Deborah Blum and myriad historians and journalists, as they discuss and interpret the history of Dr. Wiley and his Poison Squad. This link includes an embedded high-quality video of the film itself, as well as a full transcript and a series of accompanying digital shorts related to the feature.

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