In other words, The Poison Squad touches on countless disciplines and themes public health, chemistry, laboratory science, state and federal regulations, food manufacturing, advertising, forensics, demographics, and the economic access to wholesome foodstuffs, a perfect landscape of subjects for a health sciences class to discuss or, forgive me, chew on. Wiley and his team of assistants who worked tirelessly to assure that our children’s milk, our grandmother’s vegetables, and our coworker’s meat were not preserved with formaldehyde, enhanced with copper sulfate or made edible with borax. Blum, a journalist, science writer, Pulitzer Prize winning author, and former UW-Madison faculty, chronicles the story of the Department of Agriculture’s Harvey W. The 2019-2020 UW-Madison Go Big Read (GBR) selection is The Poison Squad, by Deborah Blum.
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