The adulteration of food : conferences by the Institute of Chemistry on Monday and Tuesday, July 14th and 15th : food adulteration and analysis.
- International Health Exhibition (1884 : London, England)
- Date:
- 1884
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Credit: The adulteration of food : conferences by the Institute of Chemistry on Monday and Tuesday, July 14th and 15th : food adulteration and analysis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![LONDON, 1884. INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY. Conference on Monday, July 14, 1884. Professor W. Odling, M.A, F.R.S., President of the Institute, in the Chair. The Chairman said the Executive Council of the Exhi- bition had invited the Institute of Chemistry to hold a conference on the very important subject of the adultera- tion of food, and the modes of analysing it, and he hoped that having before them a subject of this kind, to which so much attention had been paid by so many eminently qualified, a discussion of considerable interest must arise and that some good in the way of increase of knowledge and increase of agreement as to the points desirable to attain in future must be arrived at. FOOD ADULTERATION AND ANALYSIS. By Dr. James Bell, F.R.S. rrUr- “ !tS Wid6St SeSe' may be described as he act of debasmg articles for pecuniary profit by inten- jonally adding thereto an inferior substance, or by taking herefrom some valuable constituent ; and it may also bi [c 8] 2 falsificati°n of inferior articles by im-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2852181x_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
