Poisonous Foods

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Cause of “milk sickness” that killed Abraham Lincoln’s mother

Coca-Cola on trial in 1911 charged with being injurious to health

Pathogen that caused Irish potato famine probably came from South America

The “Poison Squad” men who tested food additives on themselves

Toxic amounts of Vitamin A in Polar Bear Liver

Books of Interest

Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy

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Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat

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Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick

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Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety

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

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Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics, and History

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Politics of Purity: Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy

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Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears

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Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee

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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

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