Harvey W. Wiley
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This is the autobiography of Harvey W. Wiley, the food chemist who is recognized as the "Father of US Food and Drug Law;" he championed the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Law. Among other vignettes, Wiley explains how Teddy Roosevelt was reading The Jungle at breakfast while eating sausage - prompting him to get behind the law, and details the activities of his "Poison Squad," a band of young men who volunteered to eat meals loaded with preservatives.
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