"There are poisons that blind you and poisons that open your eyes."
August Strindberg
The Poison Squad
The fascinating—and sometimes horrifying - story of the 19th-century crusade for food safety in the United States, led by a pioneering scientist who fought hard against "chemically enhanced and deceptive food manufacturing practices," some of which we still see today. The Poison Squad was a New York Times Notable Book in 2018 and became a PBS documentary in 2020.
Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer-prize winning science journalist, the best-selling author of six books, and a writer with a long-standing interest in poison, in our everyday lives, in our history and in far too many murders.
