If you’re interested, The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum is both horrifying and fascinating read about the food industry in late 1800s - early 1900s, and the foun

If you’re interested, The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum is both horrifying and fascinating read about the food industry in late 1800s - early 1900s, and the foundation of the FDA. At the time, it was common to put formaldehyde in meat and dairy, borax in butter, salicylic acid into wine, and to sell products such as “pepper dust”, which was literal dust with no real pepper in it.