From my Crusading Chemist website:

…June 30th is another example of bizarre historical dates that seem to have transcendent value. On that day a little more than two decades later, Harvey W. Wiley passed away. A year before, Wiley had published his book The History of a Crime Against the Food Law: The Amazing Story of the National Pure Food and Drugs Law Intended to Protect the Health of the People, Perverted to Protect Adulteration of Foods and Drugs. So many copies of the book were mysteriously destroyed that few have been in circulation to this day. The digitized book distribution of the internet and the popularity of reprinting old titles is giving it a come back…

Read more here.

Wiley signed book

A copy of Wiley’s book that he autographed. Photograph found at http://litbrit.blogspot.com/2007/06/diminished-capacity-fda-downsized-and.html.

 

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