Examination of foods to assure wholesome and clean products free from unsafe microbes or chemical contamination, natural or added deleterious substances, and decomposition during production, processing, packaging, etc.
    

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A desperately unhappy woman cradling her sick child. Etching by T.A. Steinlen, 1902.

Death as a lethal confectioner making up sweets using arsenic and plaster of Paris as ingredients; representing the toxic adulteration of sweets in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1858.

The earth in relation to the preservation and destruction of contagia : being the Milroy lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1899, with other papers on sanitation / by George Vivian Poore.

Food Inspection

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The earth in relation to the preservation and destruction of contagia : being the Milroy lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1899, with other papers on sanitation / by George Vivian Poore.

Food & drugs administration. Supplement to first edition / by Stewart Swift.

Die Nahrungsmittel in ihren chemischen und technischen Beziehungen / von F. C. Knapp.

Adulterations detected; or, Plain instructions for the discovery of frauds in food and medicine / By Arthur Hill Hassall.

The chemical analysis of foods : a practical treatise on the examination of foodstuffs and the detection of adulterants / by Henry Edward Cox.