Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Adulteration & Food
Contamination
- Poisonous Additives
- Chalk mixed with flour
- Butter bread and
gin contain copper
- Meat from diseased animals
- Bread containing plaster of
paris, alum copper sulphate
- John Postgate Food safety
campaigner
- The sale of food and Drugs Act
1860 bill introduced by William
Scholefield MP using John
Postgates findings
- Milk 1/4 water and
contained chalk
- Beer contained alum, sulphuric
acid and cocculus Indius (plant
with stimulant properties)