The Poison Squad: When the U.S. Government Paid Men to Eat Food Preservatives
In 1902, U.S. government chemist Harvey Wiley began recruiting healthy young men for an unusual experiment. View this post on Instagram A post shared by EeKs (@doctoreeks) Their assignment? Eat food containing measured amounts of chemical preservatives and see what happened. The substances tested included borax, benzoates and formaldehyde, among others. The men ate carefully …