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Jonathan Rees, "The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley's Fight for Pure Food" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

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What Is the Story of Harvey Wiley?

harvey wiley was a chemist, an a medical doctor. He started a conducting experiments on human subjects right after the turn of the twentieth century. They got enormous amounts of attention. And that experiment led to the purefood and drug act of 19 o six. In some ways, it led wiley to lobby for it, and his lobbying was very important in the final passage of that law.

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